Connecting

  • Originally Proclaimed: 06/23/19 Intro: Ordinarily, I try to refrain from using my personal stories to illustrate sermons, primarily because I know that you may get tired of hearing them. That said, if there is one book in the Bible, and one verse that I look to as the source and ground for my faith it

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  • Originally Proclaimed: 06/02/19 Intro: On most social media websites, there is a sections somewhere on the profile page that gives users a field of suggested connections. Some call these friends that we might also know. Others suggest profiles that we should follow based on those we already know. But all of them utilize our current

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  • Intro: In our messages in this series we have been asking ourselves how connected is too connected. If we were to sum up all that we have said, it might sound something like this: We are too connected when our fear of making a wrong decision, exposing an undesirable part of ourselves, or keeping up

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  • Originally Proclaimed: 05/19/19 Intro: Since today is graduate Sunday, I thought it would be interesting for us to take a few minutes to open our message by thinking a little of the world of connecting that these young people entered into when they were born in 2000-2001. The first Apple stores opened selling Apple products,

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  •   Intro: Back in March rumbling began about a major scandal in college admissions. As it seems, famous families would pay a college admissions company to “prepare” their children to be admitted to the “right” college that fit the  family’s appearance in society. While nothing was ever said to be certain, the families understood they

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  • Originally Proclaimed: 05/05/19 Intro: As we have become more connected through social media, the use of social media screenings in hiring situations has skyrocted. One web source gives these statistics, that 74% of IT related employers, 73% of manufacturing related employers, and even 59% of sales related employers do some form of a social media

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  • Originally Proclaimed: 04/28/19 Intro: A website called Smart Insights published an article on their website offering some revealing stats. They listed the world’s population as 7.676 billion. Of that population there are 5.112 billion unique mobile phone users or 67% of the worldwide population. 4.388 billion unique users of the internet can be detected or

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