The last Rise message before the big wrap up! This one covers one fo the most important topics….. Christian Community. Do you need to go to church? What if I’m not happy at my church? Can’t two Christians being together be “church”? What should church be like and what’s the point?
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Rise: Christian Community
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged Christian community, church, disciplship, fellowship, leave, leaving, unity, worship on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking About Leaving Your Church?
Posted in Uncategorized, Messages and Thoughts, tagged church, leave, split, dead on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week, I was preaching on the importance of Christian Community through local church bodies. You will find the full talk on my web-site at www.tomhypes.com but this part is something I get asked about often so I thought I’d break it out as a blog. What do you do if you do not find [...]
Rise: Workplace
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged boss, disciplship, evangelism, life, managing, unemployed, work on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The fifth in the “Rise” series……. This one is on Rising in the workplace……..
Rise: Halftime
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged burn out, christian, church, encouragment, giving up, halftime, Hebrews 10, struggling on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A 10 minute message that serves as an encouragement for Christian who are struggling and feel overwhelmed…..
Rise: Parenting and Being Parented
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged Bible, Biblical, children, Ephesians 6, family, message, parent, parenting, podcast, sermon, video on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Second in the “Rise” Series
Rise: Singles, Husbands and Wives
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged Bible, christian, family, husband, single, the shepherd's fellowship, video podcast, wife on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Message One in the Rise Series
Should We Really Hate Religion?
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, Uncategorized, tagged Christ follower, hate, hyprocrite, religion, spiritual, video, why, you tube on January 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
There is a video circulating called “Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus”. You can see it here…. As I watched it, I started scrolling through the comments on the You Tube page to see how different people were reacting to it. When I did I noticed two things; how many people were commenting in [...]
Pastoral Stats
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged burnoout, care, church, pastor, pastoral, stress on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Got a flyer from “Care for Pastors” the other day and it had some statistics about pastors that I thought others might be interested in. When I used to get things like this before I was a pastor, I thought they were a stretch. Now after more than 10 years and meeting and talking [...]
True Worship (Happy Holy Days Series)
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged christian living, God, the shepherd's fellowship, worship. true on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Donate Life Sunday Testimony
Posted in Messages and Thoughts, tagged lifeline of ohio, liver transplant, organ donation, testimony, video podcast on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A testimony of one saved by an organ donor…. www.lifelineofohio.org
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Hi, I'm Tom and this is my web-site. Sometimes, within ministry, it seems there are only two options.....to be a believer of the Scripture and be seen as being self righteous, judgmental, and hyprocritical or believe you have to water down the Bible to being loving, merciful, and full of grace. Well, I fall in the middle of all that...I am an emerging conservative. I am in love with the community and relational spirituality as seen in the Bible and the ministry of Jesus Christ and believe we can have it here today! Join in on the conversation, won't you?Archives
The Shepherd's Fellowship Podcast- Rise: Christian Community February 20, 2012
- Rise: Workplace February 12, 2012
- Rise: Halftime Message February 12, 2012
- Rise: Complete Health February 5, 2012Old Testament wisdom on three of today's biggest issues
- Rise: Complete Health Video February 5, 2012
Bible Gateway's Verse of the Day- Proverbs 14:22Verse of the day
- Proverbs 14:22
My Twitter Updates
- RT @PastorMark We deserve hell. Everything else is a gift. That's a lot of gifts. 6 days ago
- RT @perrynoble Bitterness NEVER leads to godliness! 6 days ago
- Fellowshipers, if you missed church Sunday, you missed you're Valentines card :( remind me Sunday and I'll hook you up! You are loved! 1 week ago
- RT @ChristineCaine When we think more highly of ourselves than we ought people tend to think less highly of us than they otherwise would! 1 week ago
- RT @louiegiglio Don"t spend today missing the point. It's not about you. 1 week ago
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