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Kris Beckert

Kris Beckert: Young Adult Fresh Expressions Kris Beckert | 7 Jan 2014 “They’ll come back when they’re married with kids.” “Maybe if we have a contemporary service, we can get more young folks to come.” “If we don’t get more young people,...
Kris Beckert: The Well Kris Beckert | 3 Dec 2013 You will say in that day: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. Surely...
Kris Beckert: Bomb Shelter or Flashlight Factory? Kris Beckert | 10 Sep 2013 Part I: Inevitable Outcome? Today most of us are more mindful of the effects of terrorism than we are about atomic bombs. But in the 1950’s, when atomic bombs became...
Kris Beckert: Arrows on the Interstate Kris Beckert | 23 Jan 2013 I didn’t want to go. There are times in our lives when we just really don’t want to do something we know we have to do. Some of them involve...
Kris Beckert: No day to die Kris Beckert | 24 Oct 2012 I really don’t like anything dying. From the day my first goldfish died when I was five, to the last funeral I presided over as a pastor, I have...
Kris Beckert: Breaking the language barrier Kris Beckert | 20 Jun 2012 It was the end of class, and I was tired. We had just finished up the lecture for that day, and I was ready to pack up my books and...
Kris Beckert: National Gathering Day Two, Can these bones live? Kris Beckert | 19 Mar 2012 Wet. We may have started out this year’s Fresh Expressions National Gathering talking about the uninhibited growth of sharks in the ocean, but we soon traveled to Ezekiel’s Valley of...
Kris Beckert: National Gathering Day One–Sharks, Fire and Scorecards Kris Beckert | 16 Mar 2012 This is the first in a series of posts reflecting on the Fresh Expressions National Gathering. “Take a sledgehammer to that tank.” No, that’s not quite the usual way we’d...
Waffle House Church Kris Beckert | 25 Jan 2012 “Waffle House,” he said. “What I miss most from living in the South is Waffle House. You don’t know how many times I’ve visited that place—sometimes in the middle of...

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