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This weekend we concluded our series Smudged. Chris Bell brought us a great teaching on spirituality vs. religion. We’re on a spiritual journey that is about a way of life.

Turn from believing rightly to living rightly.
Turn from following rules to building relationships.
Turn from the destination to the journey.
Turn from religious rituals to spiritual practices.

We ended the weekend by taking communion together – a spiritual practice to remember what a friend did for us. It’s all about cleaning the lenses of our life so that we can see things how they really are – unsmudged.

Here’s the music setlist from the weekend (with links to iTunes to purchase the original recordings):

• The Time Has Come – Hillsong United
• Hosanna – Hillsong United
• Losing My Religion – R.E.M. *****
• Everything – Lifehouse

Posted by Mike Jones

*****(Please use discretion when previewing or purchasing other songs by this artist as other songs on this album may contain inappropriate lyrical content.)

Our Smudged series continued as we talked about our children.  Scott talked about how we can build scaffolding in our kids lives so that their lives and leadership would exceed our own.  Very powerful and healing message in looking at how we see our parents and our children with an unsmudged perspective.  We concluded each service with an opportunity for parents to dedicate their kids to God – asking God and our church community to help them build scaffolding in their kids’ lives.

Here’s the music setlist from the weekend (with links to iTunes to purchase the original recordings):

• Salvation Is Here – Hillsong United
• Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster
• Only You – David Crowder Band
• Cats In The Cradle – Ugly Kid Joe *****

Posted by Mike Jones

*****(Please use discretion when previewing or purchasing other songs by this artist as other songs on this album may contain inappropriate lyrical content.)

This weekend in our series Smudged, Chris Bell talked about our health and how we view our bodies. He talked about not comparing ourselves to others but treating our body as the temple of God. He also gave some very practical things for us to check out to improve our health.

Here’s the music setlist from the weekend (with links to iTunes to purchase the original recordings):

• Lord We Praise You – Todd Fields
• Hosanna – Starfield
• Holy Is The Lord – Chris Tomlin
• All To You – Lincoln Brewster
• I Am Free – Desperation Band

Posted by Mike Jones

The third week in our series Smudged was about how we see and deal with conflict. Scott talked about our some very practical ways to effectively and biblically resolve conflict in our lives. Check out the podcast here.

Here’s the music setlist from the weekend (with links to iTunes to purchase the original recordings):

• We Shine – Steve Fee
• Kingdom Come – Hillsong United
• Another Hallelujah – Lincoln Brewster
• Over My Head (Cable Car) – The Fray

Posted by Mike Jones

The second weekend in our series Smudged.  Scott talked about our marriages and how we can clear up our perspective of our spouse and our relationships.

Here’s the music setlist from the weekend (with links to iTunes to purchase the original recordings):

• Awesome Is The Lord Most High – Chris Tomlin
• Kingdom Come – Hillsong United
• O Praise Him – David Crowder Band
• It Ends Tonight – The All-American Rejects *****

Posted by Mike Jones

*****(Please use discretion when previewing or purchasing other songs by this artist as other songs on this album may contain inappropriate lyrical content.)