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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Aaron Marcelli | June 29, 2009
Yesterday at church we had a very nice patriotic flavored worship service. It began with a solo rendition of our national anthem that made me want to play baseball, there were large U.S. flags hanging in all of our auditoriums, and our pastor spoke to our country’s history, current condition, and the place of Christians [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | June 9, 2009
It has never taken me longer to finish a book that was not a 700 page theology read than it did for me to complete President Obama’s best seller. I’m obviously a little behind too as my original plan was to read it before last year’s election. I had decided against that idea when I [...]
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