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Case Study: Leadership Basics

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Don Merritt

Welcome back to the conference room for today’s discussion about leadership basics.These basic ideas pertain not only to our case study of Franklin Christian Church, but to any leader anywhere, and if this was a book rather than a series … Continue reading →

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Case Study: Meeting the Leadership

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Don Merritt

Today we’ve moved into the next step in our case study of Franklin Christian Church (FCC) in Franklin, Illinois, and as promised yesterday, we will meet the leadership in this episode. If you haven’t seen the first few posts in … Continue reading →

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What… me change?

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Don Merritt

At the end of yesterday’s post “Something Special” I mentioned that the challenge for FCC and other churches like it is whether or not enough people there would be willing to make changes to grow, both spiritually as a congregation and numerically … Continue reading →

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Something Special

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Don Merritt

The other day, I told you about the town I visited last week, Franklin, Illinois. In that post, I promised much more about Franklin, and so today I’ll begin telling you some interesting things about the church I visited with, … Continue reading →

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Living Hope

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Don Merritt

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or … Continue reading →

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God’s Cathedral

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Don Merritt

The greatest of cathedrals are not made by the hands of men, but by the very hand of God Himself. In those cathedrals, you can go to pray and to listen to the sounds that are not sounds made by … Continue reading →

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A Town, Like Any Other Town

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Don Merritt

It’s where I’ve been for the last week, a town just like another thousand towns in a thousand other places. There’s really nothing obvious to tell you that this little town is any different from all the rest. It’s called … Continue reading →

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Some Things Never Change

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Don Merritt

John’s last letter. So short, so telling. John is writing to his friend and brother Gaius. He seems to have been a leader in the church, and even though there are other mentions of men with this name in Scripture, … Continue reading →

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His Will

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Don Merritt

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to … Continue reading →

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Haves and Have Nots

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Don Merritt

This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that … Continue reading →