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This is What Keeps Me Up At Night

Hey folks…time to send a message from my pastor's heart.  Doesn't happen very often, but here it is. We get a lot of traffic on this blog and my personal blog, and lots of posts.  But on Monday on this blog, I asked everyone a question:  how is your dialogue

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What Are You Doing With Jesus This Week?

I'm so grateful for the dialogue Jesus the Guru, is generating.  But I want it to go way beyond talk about Jesus and focus on talking with Jesus.  How's that going for you? In week one of the series, I encouraged people to read their Bibles and interact with God

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Sunday Brain Dump

Hey friends . . . It's another "stream of thought" from Rich!  It was great to be at our Orillia Campus this morning again after having been in Barrie for the last month or so.  Here's some stuff that I saw . . . Fastest Set up by Eteam –

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Jesus the Guru…This Weekend

Well, this is it…Jesus the Guru is in full swing.  We launch the series this weekend in Orillia and move to week two in Barrie.  Before we get to the details, remember that if you have a friend along with you, you can pick up at $35 gift card that

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Team Member of the Week: The Walkers

This week we want to highlight two families that have meant so much to the launch of Connexus.  It's because of people like the Walker's that we are able to be the kind of church that we invite our friends to.  Thanks so much to all of our volunteers for

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Jesus the Guru: Hinduism (plus inviting ideas)

Hinduism is the world's oldest major religion that is still practiced. Its earliest origins can be traced to the ancient Vedic civilization. A conglomerate of diverse beliefs and traditions, Hinduism has no single founder. It is the world's third largest religion following Christianity and Islam, with approximately a billion adherents,

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Some Great Stories…What's Yours?

Over the Easter Weekend, we had a chance to share Good Friday and Easter with almost 1300 people between our campuses.  What's exciting us is not just that people are coming, but who is coming. I had numerous conversations over the weekend and early part of this week with people

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Great Easter Weekend

What a great weekend!  How did you celebrate it?  How did the story of Easter effect you?  What are you reflections on this important time of year? As a bonus here is the video that we showed during our Good Friday service.  Another great job by Jon Wagner – thanks

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Easter Weekend @ Connexus

So tomorrow is Good Friday, and Sunday is Easter.  More and more over the years, I'm meeting people who are experiencing these events for the first time (hey – this is my first Easter in the church.  Never been to a Good Friday service before…)  Awesome! So what's the deal

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Lunch on Us During Jesus the Guru

So if you had $3,500 to spend to help draw people into a relationship with Jesus, how would you spend it? We were faced with that question a few months ago, and decided we'd use it to provide an incentive for you to have lunch and meaningful dialogue with a

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