Tim Weston

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Casting Crowns, Leeland and John Waller Concert

Friday evening, I had the good fortunate of attending The Altar & The Door Tour at Hersheypark Arena featuring Casting Crowns, Leeland and John Waller.
The concert was over three hours long (including two brief intermissions), with John Waller performing for about 20 minutes and Leeland for about 45 minutes. That left two full hours [...]

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Review: The Blogging Church

Tonight I finished reading another book that Josh Griffin recommended, The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch.
While I thought the book was great and very informative, I didn’t get quite as much out of it as Josh did, perhaps because the book really needs to be in the hands of other members of [...]

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Measuring Spiritual Growth

At this week’s Bible study with The Gap, we spoke briefly about how we have grown/regressed spiritually over the past year.  That got me thinking: how do you measure spiritual growth?  I’d never really thought about that before and now I’m wondering how, if at all, I’ve grown spirituallly throughout the past year.I’m interested in [...]

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Creating Worship With Deep Soul

Because the 30 Hour Famine was canceled, I had the opportunity to attend an event sponsored by the UMC’s Central Pennsylvania Conference called Creating Worship With Deep Soul. The six hour event was hosted at Christ Community United Methodist Church and led by Marcia McFee.
While the six members of my congregation who attended gleaned [...]

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2008 30 Hour Famine

For the past three or four years, Christ UMC’s youth group, The Gathering, has participated in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine (read about the 2007 30 Hour Famine).
Earlier today, I had to make a difficult, disappointing decision: I had to cancel this weekend’s 30 Hour Famine. The weather forecast called for four to seven [...]

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