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The Power of the Process
Events leave imprints on our lives, whether they are singular anomalies or daily occurrences. The key thing is to understand that for those who love Christ, each and every event has the potential for good. more...
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Preparing Your Children for Life
Preparing children for life will quite possibly be the most challenging job given any parent. In today’s world it seems almost impossible to compete with the forces that are pulling our children away from the truths that God has for us in His Word. more...
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10:00
One significant part of the Edge experience is our Sunday morning “Eat and Greet” time. This is the time from 10AM to about 10:25 when we all chow down on free donuts, bagels, fruit, coffee, and whatever else our food team has prepared. more...
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Edge Community Hospital
The last time we were in the hospital in San Francisco, I came to realize that churches and hospitals are more similar in their function then the usual “spiritually sick” illustrations we’ve heard in the past. more...
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
It’s a time-worn cliché, yet its truth is so applicable in our sinning situation. As people who truly desire to live in daily obedience to God, let’s examine our intake so we can explain the reasons for our output. more...
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Filter Your Internet
I’m amazed at the number of Christians who have unfiltered Internet access in their homes. Why am I amazed? Because I work on the Internet every day, and I’ve seen the dark side. Trust me, people—the Internet can be a very ugly place. more...
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The Fallacy of Denominationalism: Part III
With so many people reading and teaching various versions and translations of the Bible, there are bound to be differences in interpretation. What can we do to prevent these differences from damaging the Church? more...
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Acting Like a Community
Community is a strange thing, and vital to the life of any church. It’s hard to teach; easier to model; and easiest yet to gloss over and call it done. more...
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The Fallacy of Denominationalism: Part II
In this article, we’re going to examine denominationalism’s root causes and peek into possible solutions to these issues. Part three of this series will focus on a more in-depth look at these solutions. more...
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Marriage is Like a Pasture
Marriage is making covenant before God and declaring to your family and friends that you have chosen to step into the cow patties of life with each other. more...
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The Fallacy of Denominationalism
God is working today, on a global and local level, to bring a new level of unity to the local church that has for so long been separated along denominational lines. more...
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Community Power
Your selfless acts do make a huge difference in people’s lives… and they glorify God as well. more...
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Is God Good?
Iraq, 9/11 Commissions, political mudslinging, budget cuts and $2.00 plus a gallon for gasoline. Couple that with our own personal anxieties and it makes one ask, “Why does God allow these things?” Evil and suffering seem to be winning out. more...
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Preparing for Worship
God gave the Israelites a “blueprint” for building His tabernacle, because of the simple fact that the Israelites did not know how to build a house for God. They needed instructions—God would show up, but only on His terms, not theirs. more...
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Ministry, the Great Privilege
It's been written, we are merely "jars of clay" (2 Cor.4:7), yet we carry around with us a treasure: the good news of the gospel, God's plan of salvation, the hope of the world. It's an absolute privilege to be used of God. more...
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When the Time is Right
We must all look for “when the time is right” to lead or mentor someone through their times of need—after all, it’s just a matter of time until we will be in that same situation ourselves. more...
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What is Church?
Just what is church? I asked different people what they thought, and got conflicting answers. I began to realize that sometimes even Christians don’t know what church is! more...
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Why I Don't Need God (Part 3)
We're going to look at a final group--those who know they should be pursuing God, but are not doing so. Speaking from my own experience (with my own life), I must confess this is the category I often fall into. more...
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A Worthy Journey
A community group is a place where like-minded people gather together to deepen their relationship with Christ and other Christians. I have found it to be a worthwhile effort that yielded life-changing results. more...
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Do You Love Me?
He didn’t go about giving valentines or candy and hugging people to show His love for others; instead He chose to model His love in a more dramatic fashion—He loved with His life. more...
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Why I Don't Need God (Part 2)
“I have pursued God before, but no longer do.“ This month, I’m going to look at what brings people to this place in their life, and some possible “next steps” for people who want to move beyond this place. more...
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A Life of Thanks
Consider this: If God works all things together for good to those who love Him, and “all things” include the hassles of life, then can we say that there must be something good in the experience of the flat tire or the hole in the roof? more...
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The Power of House
Much of Jesus’ most vital ministry was accomplished in small groups around the dinner table or other comfortable, everyday locations. more...
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Eating Together
There’s so much “communal energy” stuffed into a meal, and we often choose to leave this resource untapped. more...
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Church Split!
When a group starts getting too big and starts losing the small group dynamics, it only makes sense: time to split! more...
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The Missing Link
It’s as if all of Christiandom is asking the same question... what’s the “missing link” to living the abundant spirit filled life? more...
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Worship In Small Groups
Somewhere along the line, Christians have narrowed the term “worship” to mean singing to God on Sundays. Where did we get that, anyway? more...
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Peter and I
He was the kind of guy who was bold, energetic, and he seemed to just blurt out whatever came to mind. At first glance, he doesn’t seem to be a “model Christian,” yet God did amazing things through Peter. more...
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The Prince of Praise
Engaged people are obsessed with preparation. The right dress. The right weight. The right hair. Why? So their fiancee will marry them? No. Just the opposite. They want to look their best because their fiancée is marrying them. more...
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Consuming Worship
Worship is not snappy lyrics and cute tunes with soaring melodies that get your toe tapping and body swaying. Worship is our experiencing the very the fire of God...and fire consumes. more...
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Respond or React?
We need to present Jesus in such a way that each person hearing can respond or react based strictly on the Gospel message itself and not on our method of presentation. more...
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A Theological Basis for Small Groups
We know small groups are good; we understand this to be true from personal experience. But there's another argument for small groups that I've never considered: God, in his very nature, seeks community. more...
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God Uses Communists
You might say we're called to be communists. Perhaps not in the Marxian sense... but we are called to live as a community where resources are shared to meet needs. more...
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Surf's Up
I have a hunch that, as we step out more in faith, and see God work, we'll only want to do it more. In keeping with our wave theme: once you've surfed "the big one," it's no fun paddling around in the calm water. more...
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The Delightful Mystery of It All
It's so freeing to approach God from the mindset of "I don't need to be able to explain everything around me before I can worship you." Give it a try today... you'll be amazed. more...
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God's Roadmap
Instead of doubting or making excuses, God wants us simply to obey his leading, and not worry about the results. more...
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Dilbert and the Church
I've been in churches where you could have replaced half of the congregation with little lumps of jello, and no one would have noticed the difference. more...
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Forget the Guilt
If someone told me a year ago that I would be on the leadership team of a brand new church being started in Lake County, I probably would have just laughed... more...
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A Time To Change
This is the crux of the matter as I see it: a church that isn't changing isn't engaging the truth of God's Word. more...
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Confession as a Hinge (Part 1)
"In the spiritual realm, there is something that, when absent, shuts down the gracious operation of the Holy Spirit and wastes the great potential of both the individual believer and the local congregations." more...
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On Tradition
We don't want to destroy 2,000 years of church tradition... but we also don't want to grasp on to "dead wood" that will only hold us back from God's purpose. more...
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It's Tough Being a Baby
Jim Cymbala's "The Church God Blesses" contains some very important insights into the persecution of fresh movements of God. more...
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