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It’s always a bitter sweet week when we switch from one series to another. And that is this week. We just finished Sacred Rituals – an idea I stole from Mark Batterson at NCC – where we looked at our (Western Hills) rituals, the ones we think are crucial to the life of our church [...]

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“There is no way we could ever pull that off.” That’s a direct quote from a pastor friend of mine when he heard about our current series Sacred Rituals. He saw our trailer for the series and when he heard that we played that music while we shared communion as a church two weeks ago [...]

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Yesterday was awesome at Western Hills. God continues to blow me away in this series – the depth and meaning of these simple rituals. Yesterday, after the first service worship set, I could barely talk. I was supposed to ‘wrap-up’ the service with about a 8 minute spiel on worship and completely flubbed it. I [...]

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We start our new series Sacred Rituals on Sunday. (Trailer here and we didn’t get 20 comments, so Rick is off the hook.) I hope we’re able to do more than just educate about the rituals but also experience them. I hope people reach a new level of awe and wonder with God as a [...]

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I completely stole this idea of the sermon series from Mark Batterson over at NCC. Here’s the trailer for the series we will start on February 21st. Come experience it with us. Rick Stones said that if we got 20 comments on this post, he’ll sing a Gregorian Chant for us during the series.

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