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Indiana Snowstorm
I thought some of you might be interested to see some pictures from our house of the Indiana snowstorm that hit us yesterday, so I'm posting them in a little gallery here http://jeffnjen.mikels.cc/~jeff/snowstorm_2007/. You should have seen the huge pile of snow that the snowplow left at the end of …
Switch To Sunday Morning
Two weeks ago, we switched our weekly gatherings to Sunday morning instead of Sunday night. There was one major motivating reason for doing so. As we move toward our public launch, we need to feel a strong sense of building momentum, and we just weren't able to do that with the low attendance we had …
Update: Our First Preview Service
Last Sunday was our first sneak preview of "day one at southside church." Our Sunday morning service is based on the mindset that worship is what people should be doing with their lives throughout the week. As a result, we aren't calling our Sunday gatherings a "worship service." Instead, we call …
Calvinism v. Arminianism
Warning... you might consider this post to be flamebait. You have been warned. Recently, Nathan a church planting friend of mine sent me a link to a very interesting site. The site is called Calvinist Gadfly and located there is a video post of a quartet at Pensacola Christian College singing the …
Science v. Religion
Rob over at Casual Musings wrote this article about whether Christians should be overly concerned with how we appear to the world. Specifically, he reflects on the statements of Paul in 1 Corinthians that the wisdom of God is foolishness to unbelievers. Since I posted a rather lengthy comment, …
My home server was hacked!
I'm posting this here to hopefully warn other people who are running mythtv on a home server. Here is what happened: NOTE: Unless you know Linux a little, this won't make sense. …
My Doctrinal Statements are Online
Just because I was a little eager to get them all online, I've posted my doctrinal statements to my personal wiki. You can check them out if you want at... http://jeff.mikels.cc/wiki/doctrinal_statements …
What I believe about God’s Revelation
I know that some people are especially interested in the bigger details of faith, so I decided to post here my full "Doctrinal Statement." This is the first post in this series, and it reflects the "short form" of my Doctrinal Statement. If you wish to download my entire Doctrinal Statement in …
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Hot Chocolate Day was a success!
Last Friday, we experienced a great success in ministry. We served people free mugs of hot chocolate and coffee in front of Wal-Mart. It was a great experience. It came to me on Black Friday The whole idea came to me last year on the day after Thanksgiving ("Black Friday" as it has been called) …
My Home Media System
Last Spring, I wrote a blog article describing my plans to create a "connected home media system." (It's the first entry in this category.) It's been a while, but I thought it was about time to share what I've actually done to create the system so far. If you're interested to read some of my …
sharemytestimony.org
A new website has recently been created by Justin Carboneau called sharemytestimony.org with the primary purpose of giving people a place to share their personal testimonies online. It's an interesting concept, and his web design isn't half bad, but I'm personally unsure of the value such a site …
Tonight at the Skylight
All I can say is that God must like it when I'm working on the computer (sometimes) because tonight at the Skylight, I found out that one of the computers had a virus on it. I've worked on those computers before, so Kim told me I could take a look at it. …
Low Cost Print Houses: Postcards, Flyers, Business Cards
Online Print Companies (Updated in 2017) Here are some other online print companies that I have discovered and/or tried along with my brief comments. Personal Recommendations nextdayflyers.com (My number 1 choice) overnightprints.com (My number 2 choice) churchink.com (Was my number 1 …
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“Thanks for being obedient”
I was driving around today running an errand for the church, so I decided to make some phone calls to try to connect with some people. There's one fellow that I have been trying to get in touch with for a while, and as I was going through my address book, I saw that he was the next one on the …
Returning to blogging
Yep, I've been away from blogging for a while, but I'm going to come back for a few articles here soon. Now's the time to update your subscriptions to the site if you are interested! …