Sunday Ponderings – twentysixcats

Sunday Ponderings: missions

February 16, 2008 Ashley

I actually HAVE been going to church, despite my lack of posting Sunday Ponderings here. Last weekend we had our annual missions weekend. I have been to many, many missions weekends at different churches and this was very different. The whole weekend was very much focusing on church-sponsored missions trips to specific churches. They didn’t even really talk much about what God was DOING at those churches. There wasn’t much focus on the missionaries, which I guess is okay just…

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sunday ponderings: fighting for simplicity

January 27, 2008 Ashley

Today’s sermon was really, really good. Our pastor is doing a series called “The Fight” – about time management in our busy schedules of today. Today’s sermon audio isn’t on the website yet, but when it is available you can listen to it here. For now, I’ll try to summarize the message from my notes. He talked about simplicity not being measured by the quantity of possessions and responsibilities, but rather by the narrowness of one’s focus. Our pastor defined…

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sunday ponderings: inclement weather

January 20, 2008 Ashley

Yep you guessed it. Due to all the “snow”, church has been cancelled. (I probably should not mention how dry the roads are right now, or that the snow is almost gone, or that at 1am it’s finally getting down to 32 degrees.) But those of you in the north can still play along. :-) Leave your links below! —————————————- What did you learn at church today? Leave a link to your own “Sunday Ponderings” blog post, or you can…

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sunday ponderings: reflection

January 13, 2008 Ashley

This Sunday, Paul and I visited the Sunday evening service that our church offers. It’s called “The Gathering”, and it’s for college and young adults. We had heard it was mostly singles, but we wanted to check it out anyways. We had an interesting experience, and I really wish I had attended there when I first moved to Atlanta, for the year that I was here and Paul was in Rhode Island. It doesn’t really fit us anymore, but I…

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sunday ponderings: more depth

January 6, 2008 Ashley

We had a guest pastor today – the high school youth pastor spoke. He started off by recounting a story of someone who approached him and chided him for only preaching the Bible, and not going “deeper”. “How can you get more depth than the Gospel?” he told the congregation. He said a few things that stuck with me. One was, “You can always go deeper in the Bible. You can always go deeper with your relationship with God.” You…

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