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Archive for July, 2007

NCC-Grown Curriculum

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I’m super excited that the new Chase the Lion small group curriculum is available for pre-order from Lifeway’s Threads! Big thanks to Mark for letting me run with this thing! This is our first NCC-grown small group curriculum.
The curriculum is based on Pastor Mark’s In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy [...]

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Weekend Summary - July 28-29, 2007

Monday, July 30th, 2007

We were in Nashville. Hope ya’all had a great weekend back here in DC.

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For a few laughs, head over to Perry Noble’s blog to see some examples of Scripture reference hiccups. These are hilarious!!

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Construction: Building Disciples

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

This is Part 6 of the Construction series on Thursday Leadership Lesson- Building Community. Last semester, we talked about laying a solid Foundation. This semester, we are focusing on the skills and resources needed to build teams, ministries, and groups. It’s about making disciples. Today, we are going to talk about that very topic- building [...]

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Coming off the recent “Hero” series, I thought it may be useful to share some information on what Rick Warren refers to as the Biographical Method of Bible Study in his book, Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God’s Word.
The Bible is first and foremost a story, and like any great story, it [...]

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Vote for Shradar

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

It just came to my attention that our very own Jonathan Shradar has been nominated for “hottest PR person in town” by the blog Fishbowldc.com. Go vote for him here.
Jonathan was a leader in our Alpha Course and in the District Happy Hour group before his stint in Iraq. Now, he’s back in [...]

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Tuesday Spotlight: Chris Jarrell

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

We’re bringing back the Tuesday Spotlight, and we kick it off today with our new church-planter-in-residence extraordinaire, Chris Jarrell!
Chris and his wife, Lora, landed in DC in late May. Chris is serving as point pastor at the Ebenezers location, and he is jumping into all kinds of crazy different projects. The baptism by [...]

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