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themelios: June 2014

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Monday, June 30, 2014. Missions Monday: Why We Go. As spring and summer approach, mission teams from churches all over America begin gearing up for a busy season. Anyone who frequents airports for either business or pleasure has no doubt seen oceans of identical T-shirts wandering the concourses between connections, and those wearing those T-shirts expect no less than a "great missions experience." Summer has barely begun, and our Association. You act as if the American church is the true trendsetter for...

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themelios: It's Time to Love Baltimore!

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. It's Time to Love Baltimore! Human beings are, at one and the same time, created in God's image and likeness, and separated from God because of their sin. And the more human beings you have located in the same place, the more obvious those two realities become. That's what you watched on CNN last night. But what you didn't see is how God is already at work among the chaos. What happened on the cross is itself testimony to the fact that God is often most highly glorified i...Last ...

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themelios: Is "Tribalism" a Threat to Your Church?

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Monday, May 11, 2015. Is "Tribalism" a Threat to Your Church? Additionally, I see the book of Acts revealing an early multiplication of very strong, and very free, self-governing churches, which means I'd be inelligible for inclusion in the United Methodist Church also. Just about any way you cut me, I bleed a brand of Christian faith that can accurately be called "Baptist.". In other words, I don't mind belonging to a particular "tribe" of Christianity, so long as it doesn't succumb to tribalism. My fri...

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NEO360 Board NEO360 NEO360. Vision, Mission, Values. The NEO360 Board is made up of a group of business and church leaders who help to serve the NEO360 movement through offering their time, talent and treasure to plant kingdom-advancing churches that can reach cities for Christ. John G. Bartels. Http:/ www.independentadv.com. Founded Multiform Industries in 1971 that sold rubber, plastic and metal fabricated products to the marine and heavy trucking industries. He had several small joint ventures in ...

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themelios: March 2015

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Monday, March 30, 2015. Church Planting Jugulars: Three Mistakes to Avoid. Over the past 10 years I've had the honor of assessing, training, and speaking into the lives of hundreds of church planters here in the mid-Atlantic, and around the world. Though my current role doesn't include the oversight of church planting, I still love these God-called men and women who risk much to establish more and more outposts of God's Kingdom. 1 They have a vision for the church, but not for the community. To make shor...

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themelios: July 2015

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Thursday, July 30, 2015. How Did You Do It? Reflections on 21 years of Marital "bliss" and "blisters.". 21 years ago at this time, a beautiful, smart, winsome, godly young lady with obvious issues of blindness and bad character judgement had already said "I do" to a young 22-year-old knot-head named Joel. We were preparing to leave the wedding reception where we had been talking with friends and family, and head to the beautiful area of Boone, North Carolina, where we would spend our Honeymoon. Over the ...

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themelios: November 2014

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Thursday, November 20, 2014. Immigration and the Great Commission. 100 years ago we sent missionaries to the nations to look for cities. Today you go to the cities and you find the nations." -Ray Bakke. The nations are quite literally next door. In four years, this young man had never been invited into an American home! How many have come to our nation, and gone back to their own, without ever once hearing the Gospel? New survey finds widespread support for immigration reform among pastors. And they beli...

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themelios: We Need to Talk: The Conversation White Evangelicals are Avoiding

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015. We Need to Talk: The Conversation White Evangelicals are Avoiding. Woe to those who make unjust laws; to those who issue oppressive decrees. -Isaiah 10:1. Systemic Racism" Just utter the phrase, and emotions immediately go into the stratosphere. In suburbia, that's a rare thing. But in order to have this conversation, we have to stop playing the world's game of yelling at each other through media soundbites. The issues in Baltimore, at heart, are reconciliation issues, and as f...

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themelios: December 2014

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Monday, December 15, 2014. Still Waiting for- and Pursuing- Peace on Earth. In a few days, I will take a couple of weeks to celebrate the Christmas and New Years' holidays with my family. Ask the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner if they think we have "peace.". Ask the families of the 47 police officers who will not be celebrating Christmas with them because they were killed in the line of duty in 2013 if they think we have "peace.". If he or she thinks we have "peace.". Ask the parents of childr...