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Archive for August, 2015

New Service, New Schedule – September 13

On Sunday, September 13, we will launch our new, contemporary worship service.  It will be at 11:00 a.m. in our Multi-Purpose Gym.  So, beginning the Sunday after Labor Day, our new worship schedule will include four services as follows: Time          Musical Heart Language          Venue 8:30 a.m.    Traditional                                 Chapel 9:40 a.m.   ...

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Back to School

From preschool to graduate school, by this point in the month of August virtually every school in Middle Georgia is now back in session.  And, literally hundreds of Ingleside families have now left behind the relaxed rhythms of their summer schedules and are engaging fully the more structured cadences of a new school year. So, this Sunday, August 23, in each of our morning worship services we will recognize and pray over students, teachers, coaches, counselors, administrators, and other...

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Times and Seasons

Do you remember how old you were when you first learned to tell time?  In our culture, this basic life skill is often developed in the early elementary school years. Truth be told, however, to really know “what time it is” requires wisdom, insight, and discernment at a much deeper level than simply knowing the relationship between the big hand and the little hand on the clock. The Bible points us in this direction of a deeper understanding of times and seasons when it says of the...

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The Right Time, the Right Way

  Not many of us get pumped up about processes, policies, and procedures.  Yet, most of us do care deeply about outcomes and results.  The truth is that the two are usually connected—even in the life of a church! Listen to the wisdom of the writer of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes: “The wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.  For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter.” (Ecclesiastes 8:5b-6a, NIV) Eugene Peterson captures the spirit of this...

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