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A Church You'd Never Leave
by Steven Pawley on December 11th, 2022
What is one thing you can expect from someone who professes to believe God and the gospel? Change. The gospel is both life-giving and life-changing and our mission is making it visible and accessible. Here’s our challenge. Can we build a church that creates a community that is biblically literate and genuinely Christian – one you’d never want to leave? With discipleship and some discipline, we can and should. As we embark on our mission to engage others with the gospel and teach them how to live as followers of Jesus Christ, we’ll regularly be introduced to four kinds of attenders... (From 1 Cor. 5:9-13)  Read More
A Church on Mission is A Church with Tension
by Steven Pawley on December 5th, 2022
How does the local church remain on mission and handle the messes of ministry that direct engagement, discipleship, and discipline involve? A church on mission is a church in tension. We can desire it so clean we see none come to Christ or we can prefer it so permissive it becomes puffed up. We can do better as Bible-believers. (From 1 Cor. 5:6-10)  Read More
Tough Love Toward Sexual Sin
by Steven Pawley on November 21st, 2022
When people persist in destructive or selfish behavior - especially scandalous sin - it calls for tough love, not toleration... When people are treated as objects to pursue to fulfill raw pleasure, real pain is the result.  Read More

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You Need to Know Your One ThingWhen You're Ready to Walk AwayAre You Living on Borrowed Power?Handling The Issue that Plagues YouI'm Ashamed. Now What? Three Questions.
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Is God Breaking Your Ships?Are You Ready to Be Made Whole?Yes Good Men Fail. Now What?Are You Living Like a GrINO?
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A Better Look for YouBaggage You Weren't Meant to CarrySatan Desires to Get You AloneLooking for Help In All The Wrong Places?
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What Kind of Christian Are You?Something You Need to RememberGod's Answer to Your IneffectivenessOnly One Out of Ten Helped By Jesus Do This. Have You?
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Does Your Life Reveal God's Ultimate Truth about Himself?When You Need God to Step InLate But Not Left OutGod Can Rewrite Your Story
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A Faithful Man Who Can Find?How To Get Out of A RutThree Steps Toward Healing 1
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One Anothering Well - Welcome HomeOne Anothering Well - You Cannot Give What You Do Not HaveOne Anothering Well - Put Some Clothes OnOne Anothering Well - The Essence of Life
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One Anothering Well - Compassionate CommunityYou're Blessed if You Don'tTwo Options Only
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God is No LoserTalking to The TroublemakersGod Hears Your Cry from "Hell"This One's Personal
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It's A MessIt's Your Call, Take ItLet's Not Complicate It
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No Arguments, Just AweIs Your Boast in Christ?Do You Practice What You Preach?A Healthy Distraction
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Between a Rock And a Hard Place?From Sucklings to ServantsAre You Prepared to Thank Jesus?Faithful is Your Only Option
 November
If Angels Talked About YouYou Don't Want Me to Go ThereTough Love Toward Sexual Sin
 December
A Church on Mission is A Church with TensionA Church You'd Never LeaveWhen it Cannot Get Any Worse

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