You’ll have one of the best opportunities you have all year to make a difference in the life of a friend. You know that we’ve designed Connexus so that every weekend is a great weekend to invite friends. But there are certain times where they might be more likely to say yes than others. I […]
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Thrive has been an opportunity to start at dialogue about living with margin and living on mission…and to take some action. This is a dialogue you can have at home to. I love what Jeff Brodie sent out to parents of high school students at Connexus last week and want to share it with you:
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It’s going to be a big weekend at Connexus. We have loved the conversation around Thrive and the excitement you’re showing about living with margin and living on mission. I believe this is a defining moment for families and for our wider mission. We’ve got a vision for every family to have financial margin and
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I love that Thrive is providing for a spring board to a conversation about money…about how to live with margin and live on mission. One of the questions I always get is this: should churches talk about money? I love that question. Here are three ways to think about it: First, if you read the
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It’s an exciting week. Thrive is ON at both of our campuses. If you missed it…you can catch up here. Thrive is all about living with financial margin and living on mission. You can catch up on line, but if you want to know the impact it will have on you…take four minutes and watch
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What are you eating Friday? For me, the answer is – not the usual! For the next three Fridays, we’re going to invite you to fast with us as we move through the Thrive series together. Thrive is more than a series, it’s a twelve month spiritual initiative designed to help people live with margin
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We started something that I think could be quite huge yesterday…a year of living with margin and living on mission. Sylvia’s story reminds me this morning so personally why I want to live that way: To all of you who work so hard to create a church that people who have given up on church,
It’s an exciting weekend at Connexus. In Orillia, we wrap up Three Letter Word with a message all about how to pray. One of the few times we’ve ever completely changed directions and wrote the message to specifically answer your questions from earlier in the series. Thank you for the great engagement in this series.
When Jesus gets ahold of your life…it starts to spill out all over the place. Love moves, to places like Guatemala. We have a team of ten there right now from our Inside Out student ministry. This week I got a note from Phil and Judy Bergen, who are missionaries in Guatemala. I love what
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When you mess up, you need a safe place to come home to. I think we’ve all had the experience of making a mistake serious enough to know we deserve whatever judgment comes in our direction. But what we long for in moments like is a place in which we can experience grace, forgiveness and
