House Church

Wes Widner on February 28th, 2011

Our family doesn’t always visit a brick and mortar church, but when we do, my wife and I have a system to handle the parking conundrum. You see, we typically go to one of the many megachurches in the area and parking is predictably a nightmare. So what we generally do is ride around the [...]

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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 April 2nd, 2010

..or “why the way we traditionally ‘do church’ hurts us in ways we can’t even begin to fathom.” A random stranger recently asked: Myself and many others find mutual edification every Sunday. If all you ever did to worship in a regular, organized church setting is passively listen to one man then I’m sorry for you. [...]

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Wes Widner on September 15th, 2009

One of the more interesting questions my wife and I get these days is “so, where do you go to church?”. This question is especially interesting when the person asking knows the depth of commitment we have to Christ and many expect the pat answer of “we attend such and such Baptist or Presbyterian” or, [...]

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