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Break a Few Eggs : The Living Water

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Due to an unfortunate error, there will be no video for this week's sermon. Hope you will still consider reading the blog, however! Hello and welcome back once again to Making Waves! We are thrilled that you are joining us this week as we kick off once more a new series. For this series, we will be leading all the way up to Easter Sunday on April 16th, with the exception of next week, as my lovely wife and I will be away on a retreat with some close friends. Speaking of Logan, I’d love to share with you our regular Sunday morning routine. A super secret look into the weekly life of a pastor and his wife. It’s like TMZ, but better. I wake up quite early on Sunday’s so as to best prepare for the sermon that day. I piddle around and make myself a personal pot of coffee. I lounge around rehearsing my sermon, rewriting sections, reviewing myself. Finally, it gets to be about 7am and Logan is starting to slowly but surely wake up and so I move from the living room to the k

Worship Wars : Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors

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No video for this sermon yet... hope that you enjoy the blog! Hello and welcome back to yet another week here on Making Waves. We are so glad that you have taken the time to join us here today. For those of you that this is your first time with us, or your first time in a while, we are currently on the fourth and final week of our sermon series on worship: Worship Wars. I would highly encourage you to check out the first three parts of the series, but will include a brief synopsis and recap of the past three weeks below. We started this series together with the acknowledgment that there is (and has been) an active war going on in the church over worship. This is certainly nothing new and has manifested itself in a plethora of different masks over the generations of worship dating back to the dawn of Christianity. Most recently, however, we can note it most vividly in the brutal division formed in the church by the traditionalist versus the contemporary movement. While the ene