Aaron Marcelli | November 3, 2011
The following is a guest post by Marcia Colgar. She owns the site OnlineChristianColleges.org and writes various articles about faith-based education. 1. Lakewood Church (Houston, TX) – Pastor Joel Osteen – 43,500 This non-denominational evangelical Christian megachurch has the largest congregation in the country. It has four services in English and two services in Spanish [...]
Aaron Marcelli | June 3, 2011
I come from a very conservative past and from among people who have some very “unique” views and beliefs. With my broad range of influences and my activity online I often run across sound bites, articles, and rants from very legalistic religious-types (I really need to quit google-ing mega-church pastors’ names and reading the hate [...]
Aaron Marcelli | April 13, 2011
“for me some of the things in traditional (Christian) doctrine just doesn’t work” -Glenn Beck on why he is a Mormon. Pastors, if you need a pump me up Sunday tweet from perry noble to preach you did not study enough this week. Pastors, please stop telling me every time you are going to get [...]
Aaron Marcelli | December 7, 2010
Becoming a critic is a trap. It starts with “speaking out” one time where you want to share your opposing thoughts (perhaps even done with good intentions). Then you begin to give your negative feedback more often and on a wider range of topics. Finally you become a full-blown critic where you want to share [...]
Aaron Marcelli | November 19, 2010
The second major reason I give people as to why we are starting a church in Chattanooga is the need. Now, to an outside observer this would be a point of debate – church buildings almost out number gas stations in certain parts of the city. As a matter of fact there are 747 churches [...]
Aaron Marcelli | November 3, 2010
As I stated in the last post, I have to scratch my head at how to respond when people ask me what kind of a church we are planting in Chattanooga. Part of my uncertainty comes from not knowing what things they specifically mean when they say “kind of church” and another part comes from [...]
Aaron Marcelli | October 26, 2010
People who are insecure I saved this one for last because not only would I say that I have probably been hurt emotionally by insecure people more than any other of those I’ve listed, but I have also had a lot of insecurity issues before. I lived very deeply in insecurity for much of my [...]
Aaron Marcelli | August 12, 2010
The summer is slowly coming to a close and hopefully the Georgia weather will return to somewhat bearable (still can’t believe these people don’t believe in global warming). My wife and I had some really good and necessary conversations about our future this past weekend. Before such conversations have been somewhat heated but this weekend [...]
Aaron Marcelli | July 24, 2010
“So where are you guys at?” is a question I feel is being asked of us a lot lately as we have become more open about church planting. At times I’m tempted to hang my head, almost ashamed, as I have to confess to others that we are not that far in or we do [...]
Aaron Marcelli | June 8, 2010
Last weekend Katy and I finished our church planting school. Thanks to all of you who have sent encouraging emails and messages via facebook! Though we are still early in the game, we are being aggressive in pursuing any opportunities that could get us into Chattanooga or having us better prepared once we get there. [...]
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