November 5, 2014
by Missio Dei Church
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Church Life
| Tags: worship, Sunday, serving, Gospel
You know how it happens. You have every intention of being with the church on Sunday. In your mind it is all planned out. Then, you wake up late. Or, your baby has a last-minute blow out. Or, streets are closed. Maybe you arrive on time, but you’re distracted. She took my seat. Is that guy sleeping? Did I wear this outfit last week too? Where is my pen? Is that a new fam...
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April 14, 2014
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
Worship
| Tags: Good Friday, Lent, Church, worship, Cross, 1 Timothy, Jesus Christ, crucifixion
Since Missio Dei Church’s gathering is at 6:30 PM in the evening, there can be concerns about missed bedtimes and the resultant chaos the following day. Since it’s a Friday, many of us have a rhythm to our week that revolves around time out with friends and family. Those are good and important, but perhaps they need to be interrupted this year. Here are a few reasons w...
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March 28, 2014
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
Worship
| Tags: worship, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love
If we fulfill the first commandment, it will have radical, radical implicaitons on how we love others....
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January 23, 2014
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
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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September 20, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
Worship
| Tags: worship, gathered worship, corporate worship, covenant community, community
Every week the church, Missio Dei Church gathers to worship. Throughout the North American landscape, we see that there is a growing lack of prioritizing of the gathering of the church. Family birthday celebrations, trips for the zoo with the kids, a day in the city, little league games, lawn mowing, or just a family day at home for tired souls are all vying for the averag...
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September 13, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
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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Category:
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 29, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
Worship
| Tags: worship
There is silence. Everyone’s mouths are closed and a single vocalist steps up to the microphone. She takes a deep breath and releases an effortless stream of pure tone. This audio-joy fills the room and the beauty cleans you from the inside out.
This is a picture of what the Church is like. She gets to sing a beautiful message to the world about Jesus. That message is...
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August 28, 2012
by Missio Dei Church
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Category:
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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Category:
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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Category:
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 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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