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SCRIPTURE: DIDACTIC
My 9th grade Algebra teacher was one of the neatest ladies I have ever met. She had a different outfit for every day of the school year, she genuinely cared about students, and she loved math with a passion. She loved math so much that she almost made me love it...
SCRIPTURE: ALWAYS NEW
For the past few weeks I have been working on our sermon series for next year, Genesis. As I am going through how we will teach it, many things strike me I didn’t even notice the last time I taught through it. It brings me back to the understanding that we, as...
FORGIVE OR FORGET OR…
The question came up last night at GC if forgive and forget is biblical? Or is forgive and don't forget it biblical? Forgiving is not forgetting, it is honoring God in all things first. We so often think life is about us, but life is about God and His glory. When...
What If…? Gospel Community Brainstorming! Part II
So, How? How can we share life together? Eat together, play together, walk the dog together, celebrate together, relax together, paint the living room together, jog together, rejoice together, mourn together. Babysit for one another, serve one another, make time...
What If…? Gospel Community Brainstorming! Part I
We’ve explained the WHY of Gospel Communities; now let’s look at the HOW. First and foremost, I don’t want to be too prescriptive here. In boy-meets-girl relationships there are no cookie-cutter instructions (Step 2: Tell your date “I love your dress”), but there...
Standard of Beauty?
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO (OR DID YOU DO) TO START MAKING YOUR WIFE YOUR STANDARD OF BEAUTY, SO THAT YOU'RE NOT JUST SAYING IT, BUT IT BECOMES REALITY? As many things do, in love and marriage, this is also a choice that we make. For me, personally, I was convicted one...
How does loving somebody actually make them beautiful?
The wording of the question is out of order because it is not simply loving someone that makes them beautiful, it is HOW you love them. In our culture we have turned love into an emotion, it is about how we feel. This is why people use terms like "fall in love" or...
Why Gospel Communities? Part II
In Part I we talked about What Gospel Communities Are, today we'll look at why Element takes this approach to community... Why Does Element Take This Approach to Community? 1) Because community is important, and we want to put it into practice! Have you ever...
Why Gospel Communities?
So far, we have discussed why community is so important (Part I & II). We saw how mankind reflects our Trinitarian God who is God-in-Community with Himself and who defines perfect community. We also looked at how community relates to the Gospel; how the...
The Song of Solomon for Singles
By Will Flathers I have the gift of singleness; by which I mean, I am single. So what about Song of Solomon? What about our “Summer of Love?” Is this sermon series merely rubbing salt in the wound? Should I simply save the sermon audio in hopes that I’ll need it...
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ELEMENT’S MISSION
To Glorify God by teaching and living out the Scriptures, transforming community into Gospel Community, and planting churches.
