January 23, 2014
by Missio Dei Church
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Missional Life
| Tags: Gospel, Salvation, missio dei, Missio Dei Church, serving, worship, God, Scripture, Acts, Good News, Empowering, Evangelism, love, saving, Adventure, Grace Alone
Sometimes there are certain sermons that I preach that continue to “haunt” me. I am still reveling in the implications of last week’s sermon of the only logical response to our glorious God of grace is, “Here am I. Send me.”...
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January 2, 2013
by Missio Dei Church
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Community
| Tags: members, Missio Dei Church, covenant community, Church, family
This morning in my devotions, I read through 1 Corinthians 11:17-28. It was a tremendous reminder of the importance of Christ, and Him alone, remaining central to Missio Dei Church. Normally this section of Scripture is used as instructions about the Lord’s Supper and to prepare oneself for communion, but as I was sitting in Paul’s words something jumped out at me; Pau...
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December 6, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Discipleship
| Tags: profession of faith, Missio Dei Church, members, baptism, covenant community
We recognize is that our journey is not over just because she has professed her faith. We know that as her parents we have the ongoing primary responsibility to disciple our children. Each and every day we have the privilege to teach our children the ways of God and his goodness (Deuteronomy 6:4-11)....
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September 13, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Missional Life
| Tags: hospitality, leadership, members, Missio Dei Church, missio dei, missional, Missional Community, Missionary, Proclamation, Servants, Serve, Service, Stewards, worship
There are several hopes that we as the leadership of Missio Dei have for this next season of ministry as we transition to our Missional Outpost in New Lenox. The church is an identity of God’s “called out†and “gathered people,†whose foundation is God’s revelation and the work of Christ (Matt. 16:13-20). Therefore, we want to be faith...
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September 4, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Worship
| Tags: worship, missio dei, Missio Dei Church, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Redemption
If you know me well enough, you probably know that I don’t really follow baseball, I can’t give you any stats about the players or the teams that they play for, nor do I honestly care, but I do enjoy a good game and all that come with it (beer, hot dogs, friends, etc.) and watching people and their responses to the game....
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August 28, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Worship
| Tags: worship, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Missio Dei Church
D.A. Carson, Tim Keller, N.T. Wright, Mark Driscoll, etc.: they all say this in one way or another. Why do they all agree? Because the Bible is so clear about this principle. In some ways, the whole story of the Bible’s conflict after Genesis 3, that is the theme of sin, is really the conflict between the worship of idols (created things) and the worship of the true god ...
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August 27, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Worship
| Tags: Missio Dei Church, Jesus Christ, Jesus, worship
The Oxford dictionary will tell you that the English word “worship” is derived from the old English weorthscipe, which means ‘worthiness, acknowledgement of worth’. It denotes anything that is of supreme worth or value. Obviously, that’s not where the Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew word comes from, but that’s another blog post for another day. The point here is that...
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August 26, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Worship
| Tags: worship, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Missio Dei Church, missio dei
Around 2000 years ago this was the type of question the one woman used to sidetrack a conversation she was having with Jesus (John 4). The scene is pure genius on Jesus’s part. This is classic Messiah-stuff. He follows her rabbit trail and brings it back around to the point he wanted to make all along. Love it. It’s funny how Christians in the west still bring up that ...
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August 8, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Missional Life
| Tags: Church, Missio Dei Church, missional, New Lenox
Because of that starting Sunday, August 19, Missio Dei Church will be gathering for worship at Oster-Oakview Elementary School in at 809 N. Cedar Road in New Lenox and will be meeting there until the building is renovated (approximately through the end of September)! We will still be meeting at our regular worship time of 9:30 AM!...
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July 31, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Missional Life
| Tags: mission, missional, Missionary, Missions, Missio Dei Church, missio dei, believers, priesthood
Key to our theology of place is that we understand that we are priests. ...
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August 3, 2011
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
Missional Life
| Tags: missio dei, Missio Dei Church, missional, serving, together, Transformation, worship
All because we love our community and we love and serve our community our community because Christ instructs us to love our neighbors (John 10:25-36) and served (Philippians 2:1-11) us!...
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