The prayer walk went great today. Max couldn't walk that much though. He hurt his back on Sunday. We met this morning at Union at 9:30am.

This is an excellent talk from Ed Stetzer who's a pastor and missional theory guy at the Verge conference last weekend.

EXCELLENT!!

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This passage of scripture [1Cor 14:22-25] was very important in the founding of the Upperroom and is its continued referance point. I was first challenged by this text and asked if anyone had ever experienced it in the church that they attended. I never had. It became a type of litmus test for me. Is God in the house...in all we do? W

We have had people drive by the house on church night, looking for us, and sensing God's presence from the road. They came into the house and rep

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Lord Christ,
Help us to have the courage and humility to name our
burdens
and lay them down
so that we are light to walk across the water
to where you beckon us...

The memory of hurts and insults,
driving us to lash out,
to strike back
We name it
and we lay it down...

We do not need t… Continue

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God has directed Mark and I to "for a season" put Tuesday Night Prayer on hold as a group gathering. Mark and I will continue to pray on Tuesday night about the next exciting adventure God has in store for The Upper Room.

So. until further notice there will NOT be a meeting on Tuesday night, and hopefully each of you will continue in prayer for our journey.

Agape

20+ years ago, the church I belonged to at the time had small groups called "nuture groups". Those were the folks that you "did life with", were accountable to, and relied upon. Sundays were basically like "nuture group round up" where all groups came together for worship service and to hang out.

Some stuff happened and we ended up merging with another church that had their own building.

As an outreach to the community we started a day care.

The knowledge that folks gained doing that, and the… Continue