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Walking With A Limp

The excerpt below is from a book entitled Starting A House Church by Larry Kreider & Floyd McClung. Published in 2007 it has elements that are a bit outdated but most of the content is solid. I especially enjoyed the comments about pitfalls when gathering. Some of those comments are excerpted below. If we seek […]

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Biblical Church

Riding the Rapids

In my younger years, my friends and I would rent a canoe and paddle down the Delaware River. It was lots of fun especially when you hit the rapids. You had to successfully navigate around the rocks by steering the canoe from the back. In between the rapids you could rest up and let the […]

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The Misunderstanding of the Church

Written in 1952 by Emil Brunner, The Misunderstanding of the Church is a deep read. You can get a flavor of the book by reading the excerpt below. If you’re like me, you might have to read it a couple of times, intentionally. Blessings. The Word of God is truly and effectively in the Church […]

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Gold and Bronze

The best book I’ve read so far on church history is a book by Dr. Kim Tan entitled Lost Heritage. Over and over again our brothers and sisters, who just wanted to follow Christ, were martyred and exterminated because they did not tow the Church/State line. It’s a heartbreaking read but we need to understand […]

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Jesus Saves

Another great book by Jon Zens entitled We Are Christ on Earth. Jon’s books are easy to read and understand and are great gifts for friends and family who might be interested in relational gatherings. The excerpt below talks about the forgotten horizontal dimension of the cross. To check out Jon’s books go to jonzens.com. […]

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Thoughts from Others

The Louvre

Great insight from Mark Lake as he describes the organic church. “By “organic church,” I mean a non-traditional church that is born out of spiritual life instead of constructed by human institutions and held together by religious programs. Organic church life is a grass roots experience that is marked by face-to-face community, every-member functioning, open-participatory […]

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Church Life

I found this PDF online, anonymously written called Church Life As Taught In Scripture. The first edition was published in 2008 and then revised in 2024. It’s 118 pages, has lots of scripture, is interesting but hard to get through. You can get a taste of what I mean from this one paragraph excerpt. I […]

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Unsung Heroes

Unsung Heroes – Naples, Florida

In Western society it’s difficult to do life together, but it does happen, it can be sustained and it can be life-changing. I pray these stories encourage you to keep meeting, keep searching and start gathering. This story is told by John White. I’ve been married to Tami for 35 years.  I have two children […]

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Three Free Books

Readers are Leaders! My friend Buff Scott, Jr. had three books published that have now been converted to PDFs. These are free to read and distribute. The first one is called Mad Cow Disease about the blunders and digressions of the Institutional Church. Another book is entitled Roman Catholicism and discusses if Jesus Christ was […]

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Thoughts from Others

Rich Man/Poor Man

From Reformation Rumblings by Buff Scott, Jr. My brothers, show no partiality…For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, ‘You sit here in […]