Tag: religion

• Preparing for the Season of Lent

  

  A few weeks ago at my church we had what we call a Celebration Dinner, beginning a process of visioning for the future called Dream 2020. As we move through this visioning experience in 2013, we are asking people to begin this season with 40 days of prayer (and fasting), beginning with Ash Wednesday. Prayer…

  Scott Fillmer

  February 12, 2013

  Faith

  ash wednesday, christianity, church, fasting, lent, matthew, prayer, religion

• My Late Top 10 Look Ahead for 2013

  I purposely tried to take a break with my blog over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, but now I’m also having a hard time getting back in the groove of writing again. Habits are like that, you get into a routine, then drop it for a time and boom, it’s gone. I sat at my…

  Scott Fillmer

  January 6, 2013

  Faith

  2013, books, deborah, goals, Literature, love, margin, new year, New Year’s resolution, religion, resolutions

• A Christian Vacuum and My Prayerful Vote for America

  I have been voting since 1988, and I really can’t remember ever waiting in line, ever. There is just something a little different about the election this time around. It seems like each candidate is already resolved to their fate, but seeing this kind of turnout is awesome. If you are an eligible voter in…

  Scott Fillmer

  November 6, 2012

  Faith

  Barack Obama, bonhoeffer, christian, christianity, current events, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, election, election2012, obama, politics, religion, Romney, vote, voting

• On Apple’s Tribute to Steve Jobs One Year Later

  

  I remember landing in Amsterdam on October 5, 2011 after being in the air for almost 10 hours. I turned on my iPhone and AP news alerts started pinging my phone as happens when a “world event” takes place. I read through the Fox News, CNN, Sky News alerts and articles, and read through my…

  Scott Fillmer

  October 5, 2012

  Technology

  apple, christianity, facebook, iphone, memorial, religion, Steve Jobs, tribute, twitter

• Learning Discipleship Through the Eyes of Jesus

  I spent this week with some of our staff at a conference in Atlanta. The past few days for me added to or confirmed with me part of an ongoing study I have about “what is the church?” I last posted about it here: What is the Church? 10 Things the Bible Says About the…

  Scott Fillmer

  September 20, 2012

  Faith

  3DM, atlanta, christian, christianity, church, church staff, conference, Cornerstone Church, disciple, discipleship, god, jesus, religion, the walk

• Celebrating the New Life of Believers Baptism

  We had our second large outdoor baptism celebration last Sunday, and it was an amazing time to see new life rise up. Scripture has a lot to say about believers baptism, the most common probably being Matthew 28:29-30, but this isn’t our only call to baptism, and it isn’t our only example of people stepping…

  Scott Fillmer

  September 12, 2012

  Faith

  acts, baptism, christ, christianity, church, Cornerstone Church, event, isaiah, religion, walk

• One Picture of Living Out Faith Beyond Sunday Morning

  Anyone who has confessed to following the teachings of the Christ knows Sunday is just the day we come together to meet with other believers. Sunday isn’t the day the work of the church body takes place, that’s what happens when we engage people in our daily routine of life. Sometimes I think it’s easy…

  Scott Fillmer

  September 10, 2012

  Faith

  christianity, church, church body, Cornerstone Church, daily, hebrews, Leaders, religion, Religion and Spirituality, staff, sunday, volunteers, work

• 5 Reasons Why We Should Still Read The Book of Leviticus Today

  

  I just finished reading the Book of Leviticus this morning for the second time this year on my quest to finish two canonical readings for 2012. In honor of that reading, I have finally published my next list page (see my list of lists), called the 613 Mitzvot Laws or Commandments of the Old Testament, many…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 21, 2012

  Faith

  apologetics, christian, christianity, Leviticus, religion

• The Future of Cornerstone Church is in Your Hands, No Pressure

  Any of you who know me well know I don’t post too often about kids stuff, but today was a banner day for the future of our kids at Cornerstone Church. I have been to a lot of churches over the last 40 years, and I have visited churches who have very little evidence of…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 19, 2012

  Faith

  auburn, christ, christianity, church, church body, cornerstone, Cornerstone Church, Denominations, Future, god, jesus, methodist, religion, umc

• The Catholic Church, the NCAA, and Penn State Football

  I tend to stay away from topics I’m not involved with or have studied to some degree, but I am a follower of the greater Church Body, and an avid football fan (albeit Auburn Tigers Football not Penn State). I also try to steer away from current events as well, but in this case, it…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 23, 2012

  Life

  abuse, Auburn Tigers football, Catholic Church, christianity, current events, football, list, ncaa, Penn State, religion, sin, sports, the church, umc

• What is the Church? 10 Things the Bible Says About the Church

  Over the past several years of seminary work I have had the privilege of studying the church. There are a lot of different answers to that question (just look how many different churches there are in this country). Yesterday was our first open-air outdoor worship service at our Cornerstone Lee-Scott site. Not because we all…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 9, 2012

  Faith

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• Church and Amazing Lyrics of How Deep the Father’s Love for Us

  The shot above was one I took while the band was warming up for worship this morning. I never get tired of being around the worship band and their practices. It is just as much a part of worship to me as when the official worship time begins. This church location, our second site, has…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 1, 2012

  Faith

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• Intentional and Consistent Time in God’s Word :: Friday Feet

  Normall for my Friday Feet posts, which I know has been a while, I like to take a shot of what I was doing out and about during the day. After being outside for about 30 minutes in this heat I realized I wasn’t going back out again. Something that has been on my mind…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 29, 2012

  Faith

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• 10 Reasons To Learn Social Media if You Are a Christian

  I decided to start a series of sorts on social media and how we the people of the church body use, don’t use, or outright diss the majority of the world at this point. I’m hereafter coining this series of sorts as the SMFT (Social Media, Facebook, and Twitter) discussion. Part of the necessity of…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 27, 2012

  Faith, Technology

  baby boomers, blogging, blogs, connecting, connection, evangelism, facebook, generation, Instagram, internet, jesus, Leonard Sweet, list, lists, lost, naive, naivety, people, Pinterest, reasons, religion, SMFT, Social media, Social network, social networking, Social networking service, Technology, the church, top reasons, twitter, viral, youversion

• A Look at the Visioning and Planning Process of the Church Body

  It may not look like it at first glance, but this is part of the hard work that goes into following Christ wholeheartedly, what we call, Leading People to Know and Serve Jesus. I have learned an amazing amount about how the church body functions since I went on staff in late 2008. One of…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 26, 2012

  Faith

  Body of Christ, christ, christianity, church, church staff, cornerstone, Cornerstone Church, god, iphone, jesus, leadership, Local Church, meeting, meetings, people, planning, religion, Religion and Spirituality, staff, staff members, uganda, vision, visioning, volunteer, volunteers

• What’s More Useful to the Glory of God Than 95% of All We Do?

  I’m guessing you didn’t think poetry was the answer to the question in the title, but it is. Poetic language and the language of prose put together in a sentence is sort of a misnomer, since they basically mean the opposite, but such is my relationship with metric and non-metrical language. Over the years I…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 21, 2012

  Faith

  1 peter, 1 Peter 4, acrostic, Amos, Amos 9, Anonymous, art, Arts, christianity, desiring god, glory of God, god, jesus, John Piper, Literature, Online Writing, Peter, poetic language, poetry, Psalm 119, religion, scripture, Writers Resources, writing