How Do We Engage Culture?

Jonathan Dodson is a good friend of Josh’s, and he was recently published in Boundless webzine.  He writes about our interaction with our culture – this is so timely for us as a body, because we need to know where we can fit in with and serve our culture, and where we must speak truth [...]

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What Will Our Children Remember?

Parent, have you spent time lately thinking through the impact your faith and life have on your children?  What traits do you hope they emulate?  What will your life and example inspire in them?  Here’s one story that I found encouraging and challenging.
John G. Paton was a missionary to the New Hebrides in the late 1800’s. [...]

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Update on Geoff’s Summer

Hello family! My date for traveling to Montreal is coming close, May 5th, the reality of me leaving is starting to set in more and more each day as I spend time with friends and tackle different obstacles for preparing to leave.
It is such a praise to be blessed the way I have in receiving [...]

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Meet with the Millers from Morocco

On Wednesday, April 23, you’re invited to come meet with Barry and Lesa Miller. If you haven’t met them before, they are friends of WBC who live in Morocco. In fact, April Irish spent last summer with them helping them in their ministry at Children’s Haven. As a family, the Millers really do model Great [...]

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We Want Your Stories

This blog is not just for information, it should be for transformation as well. God is working powerfully in your lives – we can see it. But we want to hear about it, too. Would you take time to write out where you see God working? Would you take time to e-mail us or write [...]

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Releasing Rather Than Taking Control

Last Sunday we listened to Jesus teaching on discipleship and stewardship in Luke 9:57-62. Luke relates Jesus’ interactions with three different men, and gives us a clearer picture of what it means to be a Christ-follower.

The first man Jesus talks to (vv. 57-58 ) volunteers to leave it all and follow Him. But he is given [...]

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The ESV Study Bible

If you’re thinking about buying a study Bible…WAIT! The ESV Study Bible is due out October 2008 and, from the looks of it, will stand to be one of the most important possessions a Christian could ever own. Why?

Because it’s the Bible, God’s Word, Holy-Spirit inspired truth. That’s enough right there.
Because it’s the ESV, the [...]

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Praise God for Family Business Meetings

Last Sunday we had our quarterly family business meeting.  I just want to praise God publicly for our time together.  This meeting was a big deal, especially since we were voting on our constitution and by-laws.
It is so clear to see that God has blessed us with true family love; love that cares for people enough to communicate but [...]

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Relativism, Polygamy, Culture (and Jesus if you like Him)

I graduated with a degree in Social Work. I’m called to be a church-planter. I think they go hand-in-hand. I often joked about how I was the polar-opposite of my classmates by way of the reasons and ‘doctrine’ behind why I loved social work. We often disagreed on why we did things, and I never [...]

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Spring Sunday School Classes

Our spring Sunday School classes begin April 13. Here’s a little taste of what’s we’re going to be LEARING together. (Just in case you missed it…these classes are chance for us to live out our LEARNER identity; after all, that’s what discipleship means…a Christ-learner. )

“Psalms: Living Real in a Real World”, lead by Elisa Dunfee [...]

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