Category Archive for ‘Culture’ at We Proclaim Him

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New Category on weproclaimhim.net

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on July 22, 2008

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It won’t be the first time I’ve said it, but I have been a bad blogger. Especialy here at WPH. With AGBI starting back up I’m sure I’ll find more reasons to post. Something else might help as well. I’m going to add a new category called . . . (drum roll) . . . Ministry Tech!!!! Basically, I’ll just go on about whatever software or gadgets I’m using in some way for Jesus, or just find cool.

The truth is when something is cool I usually find a great way to use it for Jesus! In fact, I’m using the subjet of my first Ministry Tech post right now. I’m actually blogging via my iPhone from Starbucks right now! Magic. Just moments ago I dowloaded the new wordpress for iPhone app from the App Store (free too). I’ll try to toss in a couple of screen shots. With this app I can now do all of the things I really hoped to be able to do with my iPhone.

Since I got my iPhone 3G on July 11th (yes I waited in line early in the morning, and I’m glad I did since they are very scarce now) - since then I have been impressed almost daily by how useful it really is for ministry. I suppose most of the stuff I use can be done from any PDA, Blackberry or whatever (calanders, to dos, email etc.), but I find that it comes in handy constantly. I’m constantly thinking, “good thing I have my iPhone”. Maybe the facination will ware off, but for now I’m confident that it was well worth the investment. I could easily see purchasing them for the whole pastoral staff (when we have one that is)!

One down side that you may have already noticed. NO SPELLCHECK!!!! If you didn’t know before, you know now–I can’t spell. Oh well, one more reasons to be humble.

Should You Take the Savior Core Course?

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Pastor Frank

on April 16, 2008

in Culture, Ministry, Spiritual Formation and Theology

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(Here is a brochure about the Savior Core Course if you haven’t heard about it yet - Savior Core Brochure.)

This question is posed to anyone who has anything to do with Savior Community Church, the AG Bible Institute, any of our members/attenders, me or not. If you are reading this you are invited to attend the Savior Core Course. For those of you who attend Savior, you are not only invited, you are officially urged by your Pastor (me) and leaders to attend. What if you have taken the old IUI Seminar? You are not required to attend for membership if you have, but about 40% or more the Savior Core Course is new/rewritten/reworked material. Yes they share a lot in common, but the overall philosophical approach has changed a bit since the days of the IUI Seminars were written. The Gospel remains unchanged, but we have grown and changed a lot in the past few years and have some very important things to say about Christ, His Church and our mission. So, I think everyone would benefit from going.

For AGBI students I would love to have you check it out as leaders/future leaders to consider it as a model for discipleship and spiritual formation, as well as church leadership in general. (It will also make up for some of the deficiencies in my recent doctrine lectures with regard to ecclesiology.)

What if you are just a casual attender of Savior CC, or a long-ago visitor, or someone who has thought about coming, or isn’t a Christian but you’re curious? Should you go? Absolutely. I would be overjoyed to have my home filled with people who are Jesus-curious. The seminar is perfect for people who are not (yet?) believers, skeptics (though it is for teaching not a forum for debate-we can debate another time), or who are a bit on the fence. You will be walked through the Bible, basic Doctrine, Spiritually and much more.

When is it? You have a choice of three tracks. The Tuesday evening track starts on May 6th, at 7:00. The Thursday evening track starts May 8th, at 7:00. The other track is for people who can’t make the other two, it is TBA, but will definitely be on a Saturday or Sunday. The course will last between 6 and 8 weeks. If you need to bring kids, Tuesday is for you. See you there.

Preach, preach, preach, preach, preach the WORD!

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Pastor Frank

on February 23, 2008

in Culture, Ministry and Preaching

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Yes, a bad title, but a helpful entry!

Pastor Mark Driscoll explains how he prepares to preach. He asks himself 4 questions:

What does it say? - he talks about studying in the original languages, praying and meditating on the text.
What does it mean? - now that he knows what it says, what does that practically mean?
How or why do we resist it? - Since we suppress the truth (Rom. 1) we need to anticipate people’s objections and dismissals of the truth we preach. This is where I think he starts to say some stuff that most preachers really need to hear!
How does this apply to our mission? - going beyond personal application to family application, and church application!