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 | 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 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 [...]
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 | October 23, 2009
A lot has been going on in my life lately. I got so used to saying “nothing” or “just work” over the past year or so when people would ask me what was up in my life. Only a couple times have I actually caught myself and responded to their simple inquiries by telling them [...]
Aaron Marcelli | September 29, 2009
It wasn’t until just last week, when I was talking to my pastor and he mentioned it, that I heard about Gary Lamb’s resignation. Gary was a church planter in Canton, Georgia who started a church in that community just five years ago. The church was purposeful in creating a casual atmosphere of grace, love, [...]
Aaron Marcelli | September 18, 2009
I recently found this entry in my journal dated February of this year. It is still my prayer today.
I have dreamed of starting a church for years. Though some of the particulars and the desired location have changed, the overall desire remains. But is it a calling?
I have spent much time in prayer trying to [...]
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