I love the creativity of my church! I also love the fact that we redeem the secular. Or as my pastor put it this weekend, we take the weapons of the enemy and turn them back on him. One of the things we value at Church by the Glades is removing obstacles between people and the gospel. One of the many ways that we dispel preconceived ideas about God and church is to use something from...
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Hello. My name is Eric Newman. It’s actually Christopher Sykes, but I feel like this is a hidden camera show. I could swear that Jim, Kenny, & Sam somehow followed my life with cameras over the last several years and then wrote this book just for me. At some point in my fifteen years in ministry, I have experienced everything written about in this book. When I finished...
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I got a call from Shana Johnson about 10:30 at night. She was trying to put together the nursery rotation for this month with new numbers and names I had provided her with. Shana told me that during one month’s time, we needed to fill a total of 64 positions on Sunday mornings for bed babies through kindergarten. The problem was that we only had 63 names on the...
Read MoreI was directing traffic this afternoon when a storm threatened to blow through the area. The sky began to darken and the breeze noticeably increased. As I looked around at the crepe myrtles and other trees close by that were about 10 feet or shorter, their leaves were rustling gently amidst this new wind. However, the taller trees, those above 25 feet, were swaying back and forth. The tops...
Read MoreI’ve been too busy to post lately, but when I came across this, I thought every children’s ministry leader and every parent should see it. Even though it comes from another church, it is still the beat of this kidmin’s...
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