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Engage Your Marriage (7)
03/30/10
Sexual intimacy is the best indicator of an underlying issue. If the sexual intimacy is not there it is the best indicator that either the physical, the emotional or the spiritual is not working.
Engage Your Marriage (6)
03/24/10
Sex is a gift created by God to experience pleasure, intimacy, procreation and unity inside of marriage in order to glorify the Creator Himself.
Engage Your Marriage (5)
03/17/10
Matt Powell
What if we were able to grab hold of this steadfast love described in the text—a love that seals our desires, a love that consumes us, and a love that transforms our actions?
Engage Your Marriage (4)
03/10/10
Matt Powell
What would improve your marriage most? I will give you two answers today that you can apply to your life right away and see radical transformation inside your home.
Engage Your Marriage (3)
03/03/10
Matt Powell
Do you want to take your marriage from a place of survival to a place of abundant joy where you want to do nothing else but come home to that other person, that spouse you do life with?
Engage Your Marriage (2)
02/23/10
Matt Powell
"Today I am making this new covenant. I am resolved this day to live and love selflessly, to live and love in adoration of the one that God gave me." That is what this is about.
Engage Your Marriage (1)
02/14/10
Matt Powell
We can begin to live and embrace this beautiful biblical portrait of love and marriage that God has created for us to thrive under, not survive under...
Parenting in the Land of Plenty
01/01/09
Matt Powell
My oldest daughter is in her second year of school and it has been an adventure to say the least...
What Is A Church Member?
10/22/08
Mark Merrell
In my previous article, I addressed the question "why membership?" After having examined its importance, the next question that must be addressed is: what does Biblical membership look like?
What About Our Children?
10/14/08
Matt Powell
It is time for a strategy change. We have been running an offense that has left us with a big deficit in the win column. Even more significant is that it doesn’t appear that this failing offense exists anywhere in the playbook.
Why Membership?
09/30/08
Mark Merrell
What do you think of when you hear the words “church membership?†Does it conjure up images of old bald men in suits wearing name tags and ushering people to their seats?
Garrett and His Lute - Ch. 3
03/13/08
Mark Merrell
Garrett was lying on his back, half asleep and half unconscious, when suddenly he felt something sharp jab him in the side.
Garrett and His Lute - Ch. 2
03/03/08
Mark Merrell
It took Garrett less than five minutes to escape the castle. Getting out wasn’t the problem—he and the Minor Gang had done that on hundreds of occasions. The problem was … where should he go now that he had gotten out?
Garrett and His Lute - Ch. 1
02/27/08
Mark Merrell
“Shhh …. shhh… everybody be quiet, I hear something,†ten-year old Garrett said to the other members of the Minor Gang who were behind him. This was all part of their nightly routine...
Pride
02/04/08
Mark Merrell
The word evokes a multitude of thoughts and emotions. It conjures up everything from pride in one's work to pride in one's kids to pride in one's individual lot in life.
Jesus in the Suburbs (Intro)
01/29/08
Matt Powell
How in the name of all that is good can we ask what Jesus would do in a suburban sprawl if there are more varieties of that Jesus than there are variations on lattes? At some level I wonder if we really want to know what the real Jesus would do as a card carrying suburban dweller.