Category Archives: jesus

…why church bumper and website

we started a new series are cedarcreek.tv this weekend. it all began with a little social experiment we tried. all across the greater toledo area we put up billboards that simply read: “what’s wrong with church? www.whychurch.tv” and then they would go to this website and give their answer to any one of the three [...]

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…beautiful love

i admit freely that i am not a “deep” christian. my theory is that until i get the two greatest commandments down (love god, love others), i probably shouldn’t try and tackle things like the physical location of hell, the proper timing of the rapture, so on and so forth. so many christians spend so [...]

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..why i believe in politics (and am a christian too!)

disclaimer:
politics and religion (faith) are two things that in the past were major no-no’s to discuss in public. i’m on a journey to understand them both, and am sharing some thoughts from my journey so far. this is MY journey, and MY thoughts alone. it does not represent anyone or anything else.
why i believe [...]

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…wide awake // chapter two

this book is proving to be quite incredible. i just love mcmanus’ style of presenting the gospel in ways that challenge me to think bigger than my little bubble.
here are some of my favorite quotes from chapter two, followed by my thoughts:
“how many of us are living unaware of all the unused potential all around [...]

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…wide awake // foreward - chapter one

this may or may not be known about me, but erwin mcmanus is one of my favorite authors/speakers/people. i’m relatively new on the bandwagon too. it first started at a recommendation from brandon (my boss) to check out a sermon he gave on the barbarian way. then, i saw him speak at the 2007 willow [...]

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…on john edwards affair

i’m really tired of reading “christian’s” opinions on the john edwards affair thing. what happened to grace and forgiveness? if elizebeth edwards can forgive him (which she has) why can’t we? back the crap off… it’s none of our business anyway. we write up long and eloquent posts about praying for the families of broken [...]

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…thats quotable v1.7

musician conor oberst (in the latest paste magazine) talking about tackling religious belief:
“I want to find something like that. Badly. But forms where it’s been offered to me seem fraudulent. I guess it’s one of those topics that keeps coming up. My family is Catholic. I went to Catholic school, so that was my childhood. [...]

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…memorial day

this is the video i spent most of last week producing/directing, stressing over, and rendering ;-). kyle gray of themile.tv is the speaker.
memorial day short film - rc1 from cedarcreek church on Vimeo.

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