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Preacher Predators
Friday night ABC’s 20/20 ran a piece entitled "Preacher Predators," a six month investigation into child molesters employed by churches. The video docmentary pointed out the increasing numbers of cases where protestant ministers have abused their positions and authority to molest children and teens, and illustrated the ease with which predators move from church to
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Does our theology prepare us for nuclear devastation on American soil?
It’s easy to get caught up in the prosperity of the day, believing that life will always continue as it has during the past thirty years, devoid of widespread trauma, pain, disease, or death. But history tells us this prosperity and comfort we have grown accustomed to is not the norm, and the Bible tells
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Louie Giglio : Wired for a Life of Worship, Part 1
Worship tells us what we value most. As a result, worship determines our actions, becoming the driving force for all we do…You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your loyalty. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that…
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Battling Unbelief
Anyone serious about their faith is grieved by their sin. Not just "big" sin but the daily, seemingly insignficant small issues of the heart that reveal our self centeredness and lack of Godward focusing. The result is a noticeable and nagging lack of peace as we struggle with our conscience. One option is to achieve
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An Amazing Movie?
Is the movie Amazing Grace an amazing movie? Or a disappointment? On the positive side, we found the film to be beautifully made, with virtually no "cheese factor" to be found. It is well made and engaging, interesting, moving and educational. We thought it was one of the better movies we have seen in quite
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TIME: Sugarcoated, MTV-style youth ministry is so over. Bible-based worship is packing teens in pews now
Time magazine’s current issue takes note of the trend in youth ministry away from entertainment and towards the serious study of theology among Christian youth groups. Interesting that this has made TIME Magazine, at a time when some within mainline evangelicalism still don’t seem to understand that spending hours and hours of time in goofy,
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Worship Music: “I” Tunes
Seventies Christian rocker Matthew Ward,formerly of the band Second Chapter of Acts, has written a book (My 2nd Chapter) in which he offers his observations on the current worship music scene. In the commentary on worship, Ward laments what he sees as a tendency of American Christian worship music to focus on the individual more
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Pews, Pulpits, Pastors, Preaching and other things that can get in the way of the church “being” the church
by Dan Kimball I just got back from speaking at an event in Kansas City on emerging worship and then went straight from there to the Youth Specialties Convention which was in Austin. I spoke 4 times there with 3 new workshops which were incredibly fun to do instead of the normal ones I have
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Restoring Broken Worship
by Steven Curtis Chapman “Group hug, group hug!” It was a typical Monday morning, and as the resident “Tigger” in our family (as my clan has labeled me), I was wearing the cheerleader hat and using my shepherd’s crook to get our three oldest children off to school. Peering through slits where there should be
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The Intentional Church | Randy Pope
Randy Pope pastors Perimeter Church in Duluth, a relatively young congregation north of Atlanta that is also the church home of worship leader/recording artist Aaron Shust. During the years Perimeter has earned a reputation as a body that is both theologically conservative and missionally modern. Pastors and leaders who are struggling to achieve — or
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LOST and found: The Missing Stanza of Amazing Grace
4 8 15 16 23 42 LOST: an original stanza of the song Amazing Grace Without a doubt one of the most popular Christian songs of all time, Amazing Grace was written in the late 1700s by John Newton, a slave trader prone to drunkeness, revelry and profane living. After his dramatic conversion to Christ
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Caroline Riley
Caroline is the General Manager of worship.com. She also has extensive experience with software sales, marketing and IT consulting. She is a North Carolina native and a graduate of the University of Georgia. She enjoys home design, decorating, and is a trained musician. She’s mostly a great Mom.