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Monday, April 25, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: Shining Brightly Together

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Perhaps your sense of humor is too refined to appreciate "light bulb" jokes.  But I love them! For example, how many Gorillas ...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: A People Just Like Jesus

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Goals are easy to set, but often much harder to reach.  Think for example about weight loss (yeah I know.  I could have picked a less conv...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Approaching Scripture; Approaching Culture

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This week, I'm teaching a doctoral seminar at  Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary  on current issues affecting the church.  Weste...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: What We Face Together

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When someone says they are "looking forward" to something, we generally take that in a positive way.  But truthfully, not everyt...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: Easter Changes Everything!

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The early church began as an offshoot of Judaism.  So it was a very big deal when they changed their primary day of worship from the ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Islam, Muslims, and the Importance of Knowing the Difference

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" I've never met Islam.  I think Islam owes me $5.  But apparently Islam hates America, which is fascinating."  -Wajahat Ali...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: All, Always, and Only About Jesus

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Yesterday, we finished up part two of our ten week series "One Body."  If you were asked to describe the "one thing" t...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: What Holds Us Together

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Yesterday, we started a brand new series entitled One Body .  Because our culture champions individualism, one of the darker elements of t...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

What Small Church Pastors and Andy Stanley Can Learn from Each Other.

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Hopefully the headline didn't chase too many people off. Last week, Andy Stanley, Lead Pastor of Northpoint Church which meets in mu...
Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Three Reasons to Leave Your Pastor Alone Just Before He Preaches

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There are many things I love about the people of Covenant Church, but one of them is the importance they place on the proclamation of God...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: Community

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Yesterday, we finished up our "We are Covenant" series.  I hope it was both encouraging and clarifying for you. We spoke for s...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

Evangelicals and Donald Trump: Its not Him. Its Us.

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Two days ago, the "Super Tuesday" elections seemed to solidify the already large lead of the current front-runner for the Rep...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: Engagement

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Yesterday, we finished up week four of our five week series entitled "We are Covenant."  Our focus was engagement, or as it has ...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday Morning Rewind: Worship

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We are in week 3 of our series "We are Covenant!"  This week, we started looking in depth at one of the three primary ways we be...
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Dr. Joel Rainey is an imperfect, but growing follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Amy, father of three, and Lead Pastor at Covenant Church, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He serves on the adjunct faculty of two seminaries, and the author of three books.
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