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In a fast paced world, growing deeper in faith requires patience and determination. Today, the Pastors discuss John Mark Comer's book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline. Both books, though different in style, provide practical spiritual disciplines to help nourish a life of Christian faith.

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Part of every Christian's task is to discover how the faith connects with our own personal story. Today, the Pastors discuss Craig Barnes book Searching for Home and Eugene Peterson's The Pastor. Both books, though different in style, explore how Christians can integrate their faith into their deepest identities.

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Today, Pastors Clint and Michael begin a new series where they recommend some of the most readable, yet influential books in their Christian libraries. Today, they explore some basic explorations of the Christian faith and Christian identity. Pastor Clint recommends The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip and Yancey and Pastor Michael recommends unChristian by David Kinnaman.

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Living churches live outside their walls. When a church is actively living out its faith and continually formed into the image of Jesus Christ, they naturally carry that active faith into their lives, their communities, and even their world. Mission is not a program of the Christian church; it is what happens naturally when churches thrive.

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Taking a sharp turn from the things that bug pastors to the things that delight them, Pastors Clint and Michael describe what it is like to see the church community love one another and real lives transformed by the grace of Jesus Christ in deep and lasting ways.

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Since every person in church comes with their own unique set of experiences and ideas, it can be hard to honor those ideas without letting them distract the church from its deepest mission. Join the Pastors as they explore the many ideas of church, some of them funny and some of them very serious, that all must be humbly submitted to the Spirit of Christ. This conversation stands as an invitation for anyone who would like to move beyond Christian argument into the beautiful, yet messy reality of Christian community.

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Churches, like all groups of people, are constantly tempted to pick teams, assign labels, and identify who is in and who is out. Labels almost never help the church and today the Pastors discuss how critical it is for Christians to resist label making in the midst of Christian community. Tempting as it may be to assign labels, Christians can draw deeply from our faith and practice seeing the full humanity of every person, no matter the issues at hand.

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When disagreements become heated and strong personalities clash there can many different kinds of threats and blowups that endanger the unity of the Christian church. Join Pastors Clint and Michael as they explore how these situations arise and what makes them difficult to navigation for Christian leaders and laity alike.

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It doesn't take a long time in the church to realize how deceptive and powerful our individual idols can be. In this introductory conversation to a new series, Pastors Clint and Michael discuss how Christians seek to root out our own individual idolatry so that we can live in deep and meaningful Christian fellowship with one another.

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