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Sermon on January 10 was about humanity. Philip was our artist. He is a senior at the high school and works with Circle of Friends. He’s a very soft-spoken young man.
I think there are two opposite and incorrect extremes in understanding humanity. The first is seeing us as the center [...]

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Here’s a sneak peak at our next series….which starts on November 1.

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This Sunday we’ll wrap up our I Want A New Marriage and we’re going to talk about sex. We’re also doing a Q & A session…so things could get a little interesting!!!
While I was at the Convention this week I was asked – don’t you get tired of preaching the anti-sex sermons? [...]

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Some quotes from Sunday’s service…
From Lynn’s reading:
My husband does not deserve my resentment, but my respect and my love. He may never come to church, I don’t know, but I am content to leave the future up to God.

God never meant for me to handle this in my own power anyway and trusting in Him [...]

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Perry Noble – a new, must read blog for me – has been posting a series on how he prepares a message. It mirrors so close to what we do at Western Hills, I’ll just link his whole post.
Community is a huge value for us at Western Hills – we stress it [...]

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Yesterday morning I sat down with two other ministry leaders to plan out our year in sermon series. I have a love-hate relationship with this process. I love the freedom it gives us down the road. That’s right – freedom. Planning this far in advance, frees the team up to do [...]

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Wrap up my first sermon series this weekend. I think we finally got the audio working on our website – www.whillschurch.org.
This series had brewing in my head for a long time. Trying to change our understanding of church from institution to movement. The church as a movement, a conspiracy of subterfuge is easy [...]

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