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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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