"Death is not Dying: A Faith that Saves" by Rachel Barkey

Matt H.
Rachel Barkey was diagnosed with terminal cancer this year and gave a speech at a women’s conference about her own testimony. I was blessed by watching this video that demonstrates the faith of Rachel Barkey, who recently passed into the presence of the Lord our God on July 2, 2009.

This video was originally mentioned by Diane Heeney on her blog.

The video can be accessed at DeathisnotDying.com.

Though I do not agree with her popular people watch, I found her overall speech to be well done.

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Ten Years at SEVBC, Part 3

Joel Tetreau

A Memoir by Pastor Joel Tetreau

The TetreausNew Relationships—The Growing Stage (2005-Present)

Numerical growth has been a blessing. On a few Sundays we’ve been close to 250. For the future we have just recently purchased a 1.5-acre lot to the east of us. That gives us a total of four acres we can develop. We are looking and praying about the future.

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Passion Week

Gabe Franklin
I am currently working on my Life of Christ curriculum for next school year and am looking at my section on the Passion Week. I am trying to arrange the events of the week by day, and am finding conflicting ideas. If you have any sources that you think are rather reliable, please let me know.

Here is what I have — let me know if you have any thoughts.

SUNDAY

Triumphal Entry (Jn. 12:12-19)

MONDAY

Cursing of the Fig Tree (Mk. 11:12-14)

Cleansing of the Temple (Mt. 21:12-17)

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Patriotic services?

Jonathan Charles
I attended by wife’s family’s church in South Carolina over July 4 weekend; the church had its annual patriotic service. It is in a town with an air force base; I’d guess the church has 25-30 active duty service men/women and vets. I hate attending the patriotic service. I don’t mind the presentation of the colors, saying the pledge of allegiance or the recognition of vets.

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Handout Philosophy

Jason
Hey, I’m a young preacher and I’m interested in getting some thoughts on philosophy of handouts. Particularly, I’m wondering, assuming that you don’t use overhead/powerpoint and that you have chosen to use a handout, what is your goal with handouts?

Is it to keep people following? Is it to make complex outlines easier to follow? Do you use “fill in the blank”?

Your thought would be appreciated.

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Recommended Colleges

Jay
A friend of mine is beginning to look at colleges for his daughter. So far he’s looked at BJU and Master’s College [CA: , but he was asking me if there were others I’d recommend. He also wanted to know about Liberty and poss. Word of Life. Does anyone have any other suggestions or info about the last two schools?

The potential student is NOT heading for F/T Ministry…they’re thinking about Math or Accounting.

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