Thoughts from Pastor Steven

Archive for November, 2006

People want to hear

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Today I preached on baptism. You can listen online, it’s under What Should I Do With My Life Part 4.
I had no idea what the response would be.
For one thing, baptism is an emotionally charged issue. There are all sorts of opinions about it. A lot of our opinions are all about [...]

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Ancient Breaking News

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I love my job. As a preacher, I don’t make up much new stuff to say.
I am simply a re-stater. I repackage timeless truth.
In other words, I don’t really create new content. I creatively present and apply the content that the Creator has recorded.
Man, this makes me confident. And it leaves me a lot of [...]

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Hero of the Day

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Introducing a new feature here on stevenfurtick.com:
Every Friday (that I remember to do it) I’ll be highlighting someone as my hero of the day.
Stay tuned. You could be next.
This week’s hero of the day is actually not a person, but a couple. So they are technically the heroes of the day. Unless you consider [...]

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Redefining Humility-Part 2

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Ok, I suck for this. I started a series of posts about a month ago on redefining humility. I said I would continue it regularly. I have not. Forgive me? Thanks.
You can catch up here and here.
Now, the answer to the question… 5 weeks after I asked it:
1. What went wrong with Pastor Jones?
2. What’s [...]

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