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Wes Widner on April 6th, 2011

Gabe Lyon brings into clear focus the mountains that modern Christians will need to move if they are to avoid being altogether cast from serious public consideration. In his book, The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America first accurately diagnoses the problem facing Christianity in America and then offers an [...]

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Wes Widner on December 17th, 2010

[HT Alan Knox] Alan shares a list of things he doesn’t worry about as a pastor (teaching elder) in a home church context. They include: getting fired for saying the wrong thing sermon preparation week after week finding someone to “fill in” budgets1 the meeting place number of participants2 I find it amazing how prevalent professional pastor [...]

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Wes Widner on November 28th, 2010

When You Come Together from simplechurch.com on Vimeo.

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Wes Widner on November 28th, 2010

Tidal Wave from simplechurch.com on Vimeo.

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Wes Widner on July 23rd, 2010

What do we believe? How do we operate? What sort of structure do we abide by? There are some of the questions I had after deciding that the way I had always “Done church” just wasn’t cutting it. But what was a viable Biblical alternative? Over the past couple of years, I’ve compiled a few [...]

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beth on June 15th, 2010

As a mother of children currently ages 4, 2, and 6 months; at the first mention of meeting in homes as a body of believers, I thought “What do we do with the kids?” and I often still wonder “What do we do with the kids?”. When we met with two other families with young kids in [...]

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Wes Widner on February 12th, 2010

Much is made of “the local church” today but I wonder, do we really know what the term means. More importantly, do we know what that term meant to the early Christians?

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