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Happy New Year!!
All of us here at the Athens Vineyard would like to wish you a very Happy New Year! Our prayer for you is that you (and we alike) would grow closer to Jesus this year, that we would both look and act more like him, and that he would be pleased with the way we [...]
Continue reading...The Embers Leading Worship April 3
19. March 2011
April 3 is shaping up to be a great Sunday. The Embers will be leading worship for us in the Sunday morning service. Regulars will remember the songs ‘flood’ and ‘folks like us’ that we sing pretty regularly, and we’re just now introducing ‘wildfire’ on Sunday mornings. It will be a blast to worship with [...]
Continue reading...Starting the New Year with 2 Corinthians – and YouVersion Live Events
1. January 2011
We start the new year with a new study in 2 Corinthians. I’m really looking forward to teaching this book because of its relevance to our lives. It so happens that the culture of Corinth was really similar to our culture today, so much of what Paul addresses will apply easily to how we view [...]
Continue reading...Life Post Pitfalls
17. May 2010
My personal mission statement is embedded in the pastor/teacher role Paul referenced in Ephesians. I understand that to mean that I am specifically called to do my part in ‘equipping the saints to do the work of ministry’. Well, God has been pressing us in our call to make disciples, and we have been focusing [...]
Continue reading...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ATHENS VINEYARD!!!
13. March 2010
That’s right, the Athens Vineyard ‘launched’ in March of 2000, so on Sunday March 28, we are going to have a celebration Sunday! It will be so fun to remember what God has done among us over the past 10 years. It’s really quite important to take the time to pause and look back over [...]
Continue reading...My Funeral?
4. March 2010
As I was dropping off my teenage son at school today, we were listening to Blackbird by Alter Bridge. Since he is learning to play electric guitar, I asked him to learn this song and play it at my funeral. He laughed and went in to school. As I drove on to work, the incident [...]
Continue reading...Meditation on Lent
17. February 2010
Today is Ash Wednesday, and a day when many Christians will gather somewhere and get a cross made of ashes swiped across their forehead as a sign of repentance and reminder of mortality. A clergy person or, in some cases, a lay person, applies the ashes with variations of the phrase: “Remember you are dust [...]
Continue reading...Communicating with the Opposite Sex
12. January 2010
We are excited to let you know that Sunday January 17, we will have a guest speaker, our very own Fletcher McClelland. He will be speaking about our new Life Team we are getting underway – Marriage and Family Enrichment. Fletcher is a licensed marriage counselor and brings knowledge and a passion for this extremely [...]
Continue reading...Storms (again)
22. September 2009
I write about storms often. To me they represent something both beautiful and terrifying. Life growth usually happens in and after storms, but wow, do we ever hate them when we’re in them. Lots of my friends have tattoos. Sometimes they ask me if I’m ever going to get one. I always say that it [...]
Continue reading...Happiness
25. August 2009
Being asked to take up our cross doesn’t sound like a path to happiness, does it? This article got me thinking about happiness and our unquenchable thirst for it. The article is about online dating, and how it can be risky, esp. since it feeds our insatiable need to follow unrealistic feelings which are built [...]
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Kyle’s Blog (lead pastor)
- What tragedy in Japan March 15, 2011
- When I Die. March 4, 2010
Randy’s Blog (lead prayer volunteer)
- The Church of Tomorrow October 26, 2009
- Been a long time . . . October 22, 2009
31. December 2011
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