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A Voice of Forgiveness
Gannon Sims | 30 Jul 2013
Austin, Texas—It started with a question. An immigrant congregation—The Austin Chinese Church–asked a few college students if they would be interested in birthing a community that would be indigenous to...
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Jesus is Sharing Us
Gannon Sims | 21 May 2013
The story of Vincent Van Gogh is familiar to many of us. In his early career, he was a pastor and preacher but his church thought he was overzealous, too...
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And we were like those who dreamed
Gannon Sims | 25 Mar 2013
by Gannon Sims South Bend, Indiana—One night, Heather Ghormley had a dream. Around the same time, someone in her neighborhood group had the same dream. They dreamed that their little...
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Gannon Sims: The Green Martyrs
Gannon Sims | 20 Mar 2013
The following is an excerpt from a sermon preached on the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The story of St. Patrick is a lot more compelling than our celebrations of him. In...
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The Colonial ‘Inn-carnation’
Gannon Sims | 18 Dec 2012
by Gregg Jennings Fredericksburg, Virginia—In October of 2011, there was a murder at The Colonial Motel. Evidence suggests it was a drug deal gone badly. The Colonial is an ironic...
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Gannon Sims: C.S. Lewis and our changing culture
Gannon Sims | 28 Nov 2012
Few writers are more widely read than C.S. Lewis. The Abolition of Man, his little book first given as a series of lectures in 1943, is a prophetic word to...
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Gannon Sims: The Church as surprise
Gannon Sims | 22 Aug 2012
“To encounter crisis is to encounter the possibility of truly being the church.” So says South African Theologian David Bosh in his magisterial work: Transforming Mission. Bosh notes that the...
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Coffee and Chaos
Gannon Sims | 20 Aug 2012
Coffee and Chaos from Fresh Expressions US on Vimeo. Souderton, Pennsylvania—It was simple. Jenifer Eriksen Morales saw the moving van pull up to the house next door and she invited...
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The Missionary Church: A part-time minister with a full-time vision
Gannon Sims | 25 Jul 2012
by Gannon Sims Powhatan, Virginia— A brief encounter with a coffee shop owner changed the way Greg Lemaster thinks about church. He’d learned the shop was struggling to make a...
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Biscuits and Bible: Fresh Expressions in a country store
Gannon Sims | 20 Jun 2012
by Gannon Sims The little community of Red Oak is tucked into the deep woods that dominate the Southside Virginia landscape. To get to the nearest restaurant, you’ve got to...
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A Spiritual Bartender for sober souls
Gannon Sims | 20 Jun 2012
by Gannon Sims It happened in an unlikely place. It was Friday night. Pastor Abiel Hernandez was out to dinner with his wife Lynn. They arrived at the restaurant, were...
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Gannon Sims: Owing the Gospel
Gannon Sims | 28 Mar 2012
“We owe the Gospel to others. This is the debt we owe.” These hard-hitting words were delivered by Bishop Graham Cray in a sermon at the First Baptist Church of...