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I Hate Snakes

That was a lens I used on Sunday at Element Church to talk about a specific issue as we continued our sermon series called “Labels: Living in our true identity”. In this series we are talking about WHO we are in Christ because we believe in Him. The whole series is built around one passage in the Bi…

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Fall Small Group Resource

If you are a church ministry leader or a small group leader looking for some new content or resources as we head into the Fall small group ministry season, I encourage you to check out my book and group study guides entitled “ Because Your’e Called: Three words that will change your life. ” Everyone…

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Element Church: Volunteer Of The Week

Hey Element Church ! This is Hannah and she is this week’s volunteer of the week. Hannah is one of our many Fusion High School students that sacrifice their free time to serve God and His people here at Element Church. Bianca, our e:kidz assistant said: “Hannah is one of our many amazing teen volunt…

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Who’s Your Daddy?

On Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “Labels: Living in our true identity”. We’re looking at four different labels found in 1 Peter 2:9-11 . This last week we talked about the fact that, as children of God, we are Royal Priests. But what in the world does that mean, righ…

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Element Church: Volunteer Of The Week

Hey Element Church ! This is Candi and she is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week! Stephanie, our e:kidz director, said this about Candi: Candi has faithfully served on the checkin team in e:kidz for many years. She is reliable and prompt and quietly hilarious. When she is not at checkin, she can be s…

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“You’re So Stupid”

That and many other labels are where so many of us are stuck in our lives. Sunday at Element Church we started a new sermon series called “Labels: Living in our true identity.” In this series we’re going to break free from the labels people give us or the labels we give ourselves and live inside the…

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“We’re Not A Church We’re A Family”

A few weeks ago I was once again marveling at the commitment and caliber of our volunteers here at Element Church . I continue to say and believe that we have the best volunteers on the planet here at Element. This particular Sunday there was a volunteer family who was here from before first service…

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Labels: Living In My True Identity (New Sermon Series)

It seems like every where we turn we are living in labels we put on ourselves or labels other people put on us. Whether it’s around race, gender, socio-economic status, political party, career, past successes or failures, or perceptions people have about us or we have about ourselves. Everyone strug…

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Re-Blog: I Don’t Care If People Come To Church

No, this is not a plug for online church and no I am not on an emotional down swing and contemplating giving up on ministry. I’m actually not really talking about regular church attendance at all. What I’m talking about is the potential result from serving through outreach. Let me put it this way: W…

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Element Church Night Of Worship

This coming Monday, August 1st, at 7 PM we are hosting a Night Of Worship at Element Church . As we get ready to go out to seek and serve the city of Cheyenne during I Heart Cheyenne week, we first want to spend some focused time seeking and serving our God with praise to prepare our hearts and mind…

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Re-Blog: Trouble Or Triumph

Sometimes God brings you to a place of trouble in order to reveal Himself as a God of Triumph! [Tweet “Sometimes God brings you to a place of trouble to reveal Himself as a God of Triumph! “] What trouble are you facing in life? If the answer is “none” then what trouble HAVE you faced in life? I say…

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Re-Blog: Are You Afraid

Prayer won’t always free us from the things that cause our fear but they can free us from our fear of those things! Typically when we pray, especially when we pray about things that are causing us fear, we pray for God to remove those things. We ask God to rescue us, heal us, protect us and change o…