At exactly 9:22 PM on December 31, 2007, Confessions of A Small-Church Pastor hit 50,000 page views! Almost 1,000 views per week for our first year is an exciting milestone. What a great way to end the old year and bring in the new! Thank you for your comments, links, and emails during 2007. You’ve encouraged me and [...]
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Archive | December, 2007
Top 10 posts of 2007
December 30, 2007
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Debbie and I have been visiting our daughters and their families between Christmas and New Year. Hope your Christmas was wonderful and you spent it with those you love, too. As we close 2007, here are the Confessions of A Small Church Pastor “Top 10 Posts of 2007″ – My Five Rules for Pastoring a [...]
Read moreLet it snow!
December 24, 2007
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Merry Christmas! If you’re in a place where it’s snowing, the flakes on the screen will not impress you. However, if it’s sunny and warm on your Christmas Day, enjoy the snowflakes here! Thanks to the Christmas geeks at WordPress for this treat…. (feedreaders have to click thru to see the “snow” — you’ll love [...]
Read more‘How God Came To Be With Us’ podcast
December 24, 2007
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How God Came To Be With Us podcast, from Matthew 1:18-25. I preached this sermon on Sunday, December 23, 2007, using the fictional character of ‘Itzak the baker’ — a friend of Joseph of Nazareth. I hope it brings a new perspective for this Christmas season.
Read moreThe Birth of Jesus
December 24, 2007
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The Birth of Jesus — Luke 2:1-20 NIV 1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from [...]
Read moreChristmas party for a lot of kids
December 23, 2007
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boysandgirlsclubchristmas party2007 Here are photos of the Christmas party at our church for 83 kids from the Boys and Girls Club. This year a local business, First Piedmont, sponsored the party, and our own Chatham Fire Department donated the gifts. The kids had a blast, as you can see.
Read moreSermon for the 4th Sunday of Advent: ‘How God Came To Be With Us’
December 22, 2007
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How God Came To Be With Us Matthew 1:18-25 NRSV My name is Itzak. You would call me Isaac. Oh, no, not that Isaac, blessed be his name and his father Abraham. No, I’m just Isaac — a friend of Joseph, the carpenter. You know Joseph, don’t you? Joseph is often forgotten at this time [...]
Read moreFrom my blogline
December 22, 2007
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I added a new feature to the right sidebar — clips from my blogline that I find interesting. Click the post title to go directly to the original post on the original blog. You’ll find stuff about trends, culture, church, resources, and mostly things I like. Hope you enjoy and find it helpful. — Chuck
Read moreSermon for the 4th Sunday of Advent
December 22, 2007
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I just posted my sermon, How God Came To Be With Us, from Matthew 1:18-25, for the fourth Sunday of Advent, December 23, 2007.
Read moreFriday free-for-all: images, ideas, inspiration and it’s all free!
December 21, 2007
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Click thru these 100 photos of storefront churches in Brooklyn. The church is alive and well and being reinvented by lots of people in contextual ways. Very encouraging. New expressions of church are happening in lots of places and cultures, and these are as authentic as you’ll find. Send Steve Taylor a postcard of your [...]
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Podcasts
- Living in the Power of Pentecost
- A Mother's Sacrifice
- Worshipping and DoubtingIn Matthew 28:16-20, we usually miss verse 17: "They worshipped him, but some doubted." What did the 11 disciples doubt during this post-resurrection appearance of Jesus? Did they doubt that he had been resurrected? Or that he was the Messiah, the Son of God? Or did they doubt themselves and their ability to carry on after Jesus left them? The inte […]
- If You Love Jesus
- Living in Light of Easter
