Overflow

What if we asked God to meet our needs and He gave us too much? What if we asked for water in our cup and He caused it to overflow? What should we do? We are starting a new series this Sunday,and these are the questions we will be answering during the “Overflow” series at [...]

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Cheap Airfare

I’m always on the look out for good deals, and I came across one the other day that I was not aware of.  Allegiant Air was not an airline that I had heard of.  It’s apparently pretty small, but they fly out of Greenville, SC.  Living in Athens, GA, flying out of Greenville is actually [...]

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Training for a race

Hal Higdon is amazing, and his web site (though not well designed) is very helpful. It has training plans for all different distances and levels. I’m using his “novice” half marathon training plan right now, and it is going great. If you are looking for some guidance on how to train for [...]

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A new way to sell music

Mashable.com reported that Radio Head earned 1.2 million dollars in their first week of sales for their new album “In Rainbows.”  The interesting thing is that they did not charge a set fee for e price of the album.  People are able to download it for the price they think it is worth.  They got [...]

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Our Photos

A lot of people have asked where we got our family pictures done.  We used a photographer from Atlanta named Alea Moore.  She just followed us around Memorial Park here in Athens and took hundreds of pictures of us posing and just playing with the kids.  It was fun, and we ended up getting some [...]

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Free Small Group Curriculum

This post is for all Athens Church Community Group Leaders who follow this blog. If you send me an email saying you saw this post, I will give you two of North Point’s DVD small group curriculum sets for free. You will be the hero of your small group! The two series [...]

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Culture of Grace

This fall, we launched a new program for college students.  It is called the Leadership Development Program (LDP).  We hired six students to work as part time staff for the entire school year.  While they lead different areas of ministry at Athens Church, we try to develop them as leaders.  Part of this is done [...]

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Why we make our Community Groups split up

Bill Willits’ does a great job explaining the North Point model of Community Groups in his book “Creating Community.” One of the hardest things to implement in the model is multiplication- making groups split up after an agreed upon period of time (in the range of 12-24 months) and form 2 or 3 [...]

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The Grace Awakening

By Chuck Swindoll
It’s and old book, but it’s one of my favorite books of all time. If you’ve never read it, I would highly recommend getting it. It helped me make an incredible shift in my thinking about what it means to be Christian. This is my favorite quote from it… [...]

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A Church in Second Life

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Willow Creek Groups Conference. I’ve been processing a lot of what I heard, and I’ll share more about it in weeks to come. In one of the sessions, Bill Donahue interviewed Bobby Gruenewald from LifeChurch.tv. Life Church is known for being front runners [...]

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