How to Have a Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. A day we set aside to be thankful, a day filled with the hopeful expectations of good times and great food. Sometimes we have really high expectations—that we put on ourselves and on others—and if those expectations aren't met...

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Where is God when Violence Happens in Churches?

We want the world to make sense. If God allows a lunatic to walk into a church and murder people while they are worshiping Him—how can we continue to believe He is listening to our prayers, or that He exists at all? It shakes us to our core—we are horrified, saddened, and infuriated. We feel in the deepest ways possible how wrong this is.

We look around the crime scene and we wonder,

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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Demons, Ghosts, Vampires, and monsters of every kind will be walking in small packs around our neighborhoods on Halloween night.  How are we as Christians supposed to feel about this?  If we think it's "just good fun" are we being unfaithful?  Would it be better to forbid our children from ...

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Frank Hart
Saturday Night to Sunday Morning

In January 2015, eight separate people approached me about starting a new church. We prayed about it and in February we starting meeting on Saturday nights at the The Lab. There were about 25 of us, we sat in lawn chairs, I led the music by myself with an acoustic guitar and gave the first message. It was from Matthew 14 about Jesus walking on water—taking a leap of faith...

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