Aaron Marcelli | March 5, 2010
A few weeks ago Katy and I (at her request) went to a NHL hockey game. I had not been to a hockey game since middle school and I’m not sure if she had ever been, but we thought it would be fun. And it was. I went all out and got us the ‘all [...]
Aaron Marcelli | February 28, 2010
The Atlanta Hawks are the closest professional basketball team to where I live. I love the NBA! I would go to as many games as I could for any team. I went to a lot of hawks games even when they were bad and though they are not my favorite basketball club, I have grown [...]
Aaron Marcelli | January 15, 2010
A couple months ago Perry Noble posted on his blog a list of ways to kill the vision of your church. Number nine was simply “Vote!” Just reading that struck a nerve and made me want to write about it. Actually I’m surprised I have gone this long without blogging on congregational voting before as [...]
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 | November 29, 2009
A little over a year ago I was eating at an Applebee’s in Chattanooga when a college friend spotted me and came over to talk. In getting an update on my life he found out about my leaving the church I had been on staff at and proceeded to ask me what church I was [...]
Aaron Marcelli | September 17, 2009
There’s an old adage that says don’t assume because when you assume you make an…and then it calls us names that people would get mad at me for using on this website. Yet, I tend to be an assumer. I don’t always say a lot, assuming those around me already know what I would say [...]
Aaron Marcelli | August 2, 2009
Here are some excerpts from a piece our local newspaper ran a couple weeks ago covering the annual Southern Baptist Convention conference. Southern Baptists are facing a membership decline that could shrink the nation’s largest Protestant denomination by nearly half in 40 years, its convention president said Tuesday. The Rev. Johnny Hunt, a megachurch pastor [...]
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