cantrellmike on July 13th, 2009

This week at Bethel Community Church, Pastor Lance Phillips relayed an important Biblical principle in a great way.  Often times, when churches speak on provision it comes from the angle of pressure to tithe producing guilt or from the selfish angle of “bless me, bless me” from the prosperity crowd. Instead of that, very candidly, [...]

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esterday, we completed an equipping series at Bethel Community Church called MAKE ONE.  This has been a great message series and one of the more important groups of messages that we have shared at Bethel.
The church has been entrusted with the role of equipping followers to fulfill the Great Commission (Ephesians 4: 11 -12).  The followers have been [...]

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Last week, my two oldest girls (Gracie 10 & Mollie 6 – almost 7), and 3 staffers from Bethel Community Church traveled to Chantilly, VA a suberb of Washington, DC to our annual summer conference for Every Nation Churches and Ministries.  the church was hosted by Pastor Brett Fuller and Grace Covenant Church.
I was reminded [...]

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cantrellmike on June 22nd, 2009

This weekend I spent the better part of 48 hours at Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari Waterpark.
Here are a few of my take-a-ways from my experience:
1.  Never underestimate friendly.  Friendly is always in.
2.  Friendly needs to be intentional. After every ride we were greeted with, “Did you have fun?” Coming soon to Bethel Community Church [...]

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cantrellmike on June 15th, 2009

This week at Bethel Community Church we continued our series MAKE ONE – the simplicity of fulfilling the Great Commission. (Matthew 28: 19 -20) The idea behind this series is to unleash an army of followers that can reach others and help them to become passionate followers of Christ.  Last week in part 1 titled, “PRAY & ASK,” [...]

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