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I Wanna Be Like Steph

Remember the old Gatorade commercial starring Michael Jordan? It had the jingle, “Like Mike, I wanna be like Mike.” Well, I think it’s time to change the jingle to “Like Steph, I wanna be like Steph.” Steph Curry has recently made headlines again, not for his video game like play on the court, but h…

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Element Church: Volunteer Of The Week

Hey Element Church ! Meet Sheri. She is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Sheri was nominated by our e:kidz Director, Stephanie, who said this: “Sheri has been serving with e:kidz for 3 years in the Itty Bitty Toddler room. She loves to be with the kids and the kids love her. She has a way of calmi…

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Financial Learning Experience with Joe Sangl

Coming up on Monday, January 30th, Element Church will be hosting the Financial Learning Experience (FLE) with Joe Sangl . Joe is the president and founder of I Was Broke, Now I’m Not , and also the author of the book by the same title ( HERE ) and the author of Oxen . Joe is a passionate, gifted an…

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The Process Of Contentment

This last Sunday at Element Church we started a brand new series called “CON-Tentment: The lie about having more.” So often in our lives we say things like, “If I just had that or if I just had more, then I’d have enough. Then I’d be content.” But more is never the answer to enough, because there’s…

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This Is Why Spelling Matters

Spelling matters! I know some people are getting really excited right now because you are the ones who believe it is your life mission to find spelling and grammatical errors wherever you are. But I’m not talking about errors in a presentation, I’m talking about errors in our belief system when it c…

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What Is Your Dream?

Today we celebrate and commemorate the life and impact that Martin Luther King Jr. had on our nation and around the world. While the day is officially set to mark Dr. King’s birthday, it is really more about honoring the progress he helped bring into racial equality and the inspiration he gave to so…

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How Can You Know That It Matters What You Do?

One of our Core Values here at Element Church is: “It Matters: That no matter what you do in the church, it matters just the same for the church.” We believe that. That the person in the pulpit is no more valuable than the volunteer in the parking lot. Every position in the church matters just the s…

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CON-Tentenment: New Sermon Series

Hey Element Church! This Sunday we are starting a new sermon series called “CON-Tentment: The lie about having more.” So often, I think we find ourselves saying, “If I just had more THEN I would be content.” But that’s the lie about having more, that THEN I’ll have enough. It’s a con! Contentment is…

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Knowing The Why Behind Your What

What you do is not as important as why you do it! That’s what we heard on Sunday at Element Church from Michael Jr. On the first Sunday back in the New Year for us, we wanted to share a message on “purpose” from Michael Jr. recorded at LifeChurch in Oklahoma City, OK. In this message Michael uses hi…

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Is Your Temple In The Word?

The Word was in the Temple but the Temple wasn’t in the Word. [Tweet “The Word was in the Temple but the Temple wasn’t in the Word. “] I’ve been sitting on that one statement which was inspired by one verse from the Old Testament for quite some time now. It’s disturbing to me. It bothers me. It scar…

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How I Became More Efficient In My Praying

Prayer is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, guilt associated, under utilized disciplines in the Christian faith, and all three of those things work against each other. It’s under utilized because we don’t fully understand it and we feel guilty because we under utilize it. Most people probably w…

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Element Church: Volunteer Of The Week

Hey Element Church ! Meet Kirsten. She is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Kirsten was nominated by our Pastoral Assistant, Kristina, who said this: “Kirsten serves as a leader for the Next Steps team. She has been faithfully serving at Element for the past 5 years! Kirsten is absolutely one of th…