The Christian faith gets a reputation as being uptight, stodgy, and boring. In an effort to “fix” this problem, American Christianity has turned to Nashville record labels and marketing agencies…
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Sometimes church words can be confusing. We use words and assume their meaning, but we don’t always mean the same thing when we use those words. Peter takes a concept…
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In a world marked with suffering and brokenness, how are we to live? What’s the path forward for a Christian, when that path is fraught with pain and persecution? Peter…
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We’ve spent the summer talking about the things we do when we gather as a church. We finish this series by asking the question, “To what end?” What’s the purpose…
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Ten years ago Providence Church gathered in the middle school auditorium and we asked this question, “Can These Bones Live?” Our answer then was the same as Ezekiel’s: “God, you…
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Do you have something in your life that you’re just not good at, but you know you should probably be better? You can’t explain why you’re so bad, you just…
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Sometimes the church world can overcomplicate things. We create theories, argue about semantics, and obsess over the wrong things. I think that this is especially true when we talk about…
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Christians have long made bold statements about God. Perhaps the most audacious claim Christians make is not only that there IS a God, but that we can know him. Through…
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Flour. Water. Juice. Ordinary objects found all over the world throughout all of history. How is it that these simple, ordinary objects come to share an extraordinary story? In God’s…
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Friends gathered. A meal on the table. Laughter shared. Stories told. This is the setting for the best parts of our lives for thousands of years. Why is it that…
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It seems strange to make people do something when they want to be a part of the church. Why require something that is so foreign to our culture’s way of…
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Why do we have church anyway? What are we doing gathering together on a Sunday morning for a church service in the first place? If we’re going to explore the…
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Church is a funny thing. What we do when we gather is an odd thing to those unfamiliar or uninitiated. Even though our practices may be unfamiliar to an outside…
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We all love a good story. We especially love the story of the underdog, the triumph of the human spirit, and the satisfaction of overcoming odds stacked against the hero….
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What happens when God’s people come together? What does it look like to worship, learn, pray, and repent together? There are many factors in determining what a gathering of the…
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Our culture is built for distraction. The more effective you are at distraction, the more successful your business will be. Yet the pattern set forward by Nehemiah and Jesus is…
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Sometimes things we take for granted to be true aren’t quite what we were led to believe. We can repeat things we’ve always assumed or that our culture has deemed…
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At some point, we will all deal with it. Some feel the weight of it daily. For some it comes from others, for some it comes from themselves. How do…
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Has God ever called you out of your comfort zone to do something “crazy?” Nehemiah would say so. And what we do in those moments says a lot about our…
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Part of being a Christian is to notice when things “aren’t how they’re supposed to be.” We look around and we see the brokenness that this world has been subjected…
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