Aaron Marcelli | December 29, 2009
I’m not sure what your view is on New Year’s resolutions, but I used to be all about them. Starting probably when I was in high school, I would always use the last days of December to plan how I was going to use the following year to become the best person ever and accomplish [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 25, 2009
For those of you who may be new to my blog or have not had a chance to read every post of mine, I have decided to do a year end compilation. Since I began blogging last spring, I have posted my thoughts on entertainment, politics, spirituality, my own personal life, and more. Looking back, [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 19, 2009
It recently occurred to me that it has been quite a while since I last spoke about my church planting journey on this site. Giving over to the idea and committing to church planting took quite a while, which is very interesting considering it is something I have had a burden to do for a [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 17, 2009
A few days ago I watched Barbara Walter’s end of the year special where she lists the year’s ten most fascinating people. I was honestly pretty board with the list as it included no actors, few entertainers, and only one sports athlete. I really did not care that much to hear interviews with Jenny Sanford, [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 13, 2009
A trap a lot of churches and ministry leaders fall into is jealousy. I heard Perry Noble once say that the church and pastors are great at mourning with each other, but not very good at celebrating with each other. We can’t be happy for another church or pastor’s success because we are leery of [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 8, 2009
A couple of months ago Outreach Magazine released their annual study which lists America’s 100 largest as well as 100 fastest growing churches. This always creates a lot of stir in the blogging world. It’s as though the moment the lists come out there is a gunshot and someone screaming “let the mudslinging begin”. I [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 6, 2009
On the right of this page you can click on the links of some of the blogs I am subscribed to. There are also many other blogs I follow that are friends, people I have met at conferences, or just folks I found online who I think have some good stuff to say. I have [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 3, 2009
A couple of months ago my girlfriend and I realized though we were both serving as active volunteers and members of our local church, and though we both were meeting regularly with people we were building relationships with in the community, we were not a part of a church small group. Feeling we needed to [...]
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