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Posted on October 5, 2011 by Steve Simms

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What The Church Can Learn From Sports Tailgating

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

Millions of people love to gather in stadium parking lots for pre-game tailgating parties. According to the American Tailgaters Association (more than 300,000 members), between 20 – 50 million Americans tailgated in a stadium parking lot in 2006. Here is a quotation I found … Continue reading →

Posted in Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, Bible, college, house church, life, lifestyles, Nashville, National Football League, NFL, organic church, popular culture, Quotations, Quotes, religion, simple church, sports, Super Bowl, tailgate party, tailgating, Uncategorized, What is church? | Tagged 2006, 37207, agenda, amazed, American Tailgters Association, Americans, anticipation, arrive, awesome, ballgames, befor, Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, Bible, Bible study, breakfast, church, church meeting, come, company, create, decided, draw, each other's, eating, embrace strangers, enjoy, enjoying, enthusiasm, excitement, experience, flow, food, freely, friendliness, from, games, gather, gathering, get together, God, group, heart-felt, interact, into, it hit me, last, laughed, learn, let, level, love, meet, members, millions, minister, morning, Nashville, one another, open discussion, openly shared, passers-by, passion, people, people waiting, planned, pre-church, pre-game, programs, quotation, said, same, see, seldom, share, shared, sililar, snaks, stadium parking lots, start, suddenly, Sunday, tailgate party, tailgated, tailgating, tailgating parties, The Salvation Army, the way to go, thing, thrilling, uninhibited, unknown, What if, wife | 5 Comments

The Alternative Lifestyle

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

A true alternative lifestyle does not just change the object of one’s lust from one gender to another; it overcomes the power, control, and addiction of lust. We hear much about alternative lifestyles nowadays. Yet the greatest alternative lifestyle is … Continue reading →

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Of Human Bondage — Judgment, Tolerance, Or Salvation?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

We boast of freedom in a life of limits. As humans we live in the ever present bondage of boundaries. Nothing in our lives is unlimited. We can only climb so high, reach so far, run so fast, think so long, enjoy … Continue reading →

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Ask Not How A Preacher Can Minister To You; Ask . . .

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Steve Simms

Ask not how a preacher can minister to you; ask how you can minister to others. Then you will begin to experience the “one anothers” of the New Testament and God’s love will no longer be a theory, but will … Continue reading →

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I Was Misled by Sunday School

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Steve Simms

When I was a child my family seldom went to church. Once, however, when I was in the third or fourth grade, we visited a Presbyterian church a few times. One Sunday, when I was attending Sunday school there, the … Continue reading →

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I’m Livin’ My Dream In Nashville

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Steve Simms

I am seeing a dream come true right here in Nashville. It is so exciting. For 40 years, I’ve dreamed that a church meeting could operate without the programming, control, and/or direction of a human leader. I’ve searched the country … Continue reading →

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