Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 23, 2009, 4:00 am
"Noooooooooooooooo!" Such was the worldwide reaction last Friday as Oprah announced, in an unfathomably selfish decision, that her show will end in 2011. Thus, after 25 years, 60 million men will be...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 20, 2009, 4:00 am
There is no such thing as a stay at home Dad. That’s Mark Driscoll’s opinion, as I recently found out. I like Mark, but he’s not one to mince words. If you’re a guy and you’re staying home ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 18, 2009, 4:00 am
Does your church open the floor on Sunday morning for prayer requests? What’s the most requested prayer? My guess is most people want to pray for healing. Every Sunday we open the floor to praye...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 16, 2009, 4:00 am
"2012" starring John Cusack opens this week. A lot of New Age hippies take 2012 seriously. They've all got basements full of Y2K survival kits, and they need the end of the world to come sometime...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 13, 2009, 4:00 am
Open Line Friday! The experiment begins today. I let you decide what I'll talk about! I got some crazy good responses to my request for topics to talk about today. I'm covering a few today...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 11, 2009, 4:00 am
When you put yourself out there on a blog, you’re bound to have people disagree with you. When people somehow think your blog is supposed to be funny, insightful, spiritual, or of any worth whatsoe...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 9, 2009, 4:00 am
... spotlight with a prominent link to your blog or website. Make sure you send it quick if you want to get on my blog this Friday. It's just that easy! Just like a radio show, not everyone wil...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 6, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey Everyone, I'm wrapping up the week with an interview from another great blogger, and now published author. You may know him from his blog full of 'anti-social commentary,' Mattress Pol...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 4, 2009, 4:00 am
Dating can be pretty brutal. I'm glad my dating days are behind me. Not that they numbered in the hundreds, or even the dozens...Actually, there were only a select few days I can technically call...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Nov 2, 2009, 4:00 am
A couple of weeks ago, we talked animals, medical malpractice, and veterinarians. Turns out, a lot of you are animal lovers. I hope you're also health insurance lovers, because that's what we...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 30, 2009, 4:00 am
... to you. Wednesday, I shared with you 3 rules in keeping a blog that gives you what you want. I was so excited to get feedback from all you bloggers, especially some brand new bloggers who are j...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 28, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone. First thing: you'll notice I've revamped the commenting system here by installing Intense Debate. A lot of you like this system, and it's an exciting way of tracking our top ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 26, 2009, 7:00 am
A year ago, I sat at my computer and started what I considered at the time to be a lame hobby that I would probably quit within a month. I started a blog. I didn't tell my wife I had started a blo...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 23, 2009, 4:00 am
It seems I've gotten on a theme with families this week. Today, I want to talk directly about my family. There's lots of things I could discuss about families. For example, I wonder how commo...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 21, 2009, 4:00 am
... No matter how much you want them to be. They should not eat McDonald's...Actually, people shouldn't even eat McDonald's. Meet "Winona Ryder," the guinea pig. Though this cuddly litt...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 19, 2009, 4:00 am
I was a Preacher's Kid. Now I'm a Preacher's grown kid, and a preacher myself. I plan to have a couple Preacher's Kids of my own someday. If I can't have my own, I'll adopt a ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 16, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone, I'm really pleased to introduce to you a longtime blog friend of mine. Many of you know him as the most awesome and inspiring trying-to-be-published author in our little corner of th...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 14, 2009, 4:00 am
Cars, food, entertainment: I'll be blunt. I don't like advertisements. Unless your stupid product falls under one of those categories, I don't want to know about it, so you can cut the te...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 12, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone, I'm back from the Catalyst conference. I've got a stream of thoughts I wrote down over the course of the week: Getting to Atlanta, being in Atlanta, and dealing with 13,000 oth...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 9, 2009, 4:00 am
I'm back with another awesome blogger interview! After being a fan of The Sacred Sandwich for a long time, I only recently discovered that a good friend actually goes to church with the author! I ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 7, 2009, 4:00 am
Time to reveal two new features to this blog! The first is something quite personal to me. You may know that I pastor a house church. We are a fraction of the size of your church in all likelihood. W...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 5, 2009, 4:00 am
I'm looking forward to an eventful week. First, I will be revealing two new features on my blog sometime this week. Yes, I am taking the time now to talk it up, it's just that big. The last s...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Oct 2, 2009, 4:00 am
What's your spiritual gift? If you know what it is, it might be because of your preacher's 'Spritual Gift Sunday.' He encouraged you to pinpoint your gift and find a way to use it for...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 30, 2009, 4:00 am
... indie films are the kind no one understands. Because everyone feels like they have to understand it, or they're stupid. Watch The Royal Tenenbaums. Right now, I dare you. Did you understan...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 28, 2009, 4:00 am
If there's one phrase in the whole world I love to hear, it's this: "Experts were surprised..." Good thing I love that phrase, because I get to hear it a lot these days. Just google those wo...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 25, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone, last week I kicked off a new series here. I’m having a great time talking with other bloggers around the web. Today I’m happy to introduce you the burliest, toughest, manliest son-of...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 23, 2009, 4:00 am
Well, after Monday's lively and passionate exchange, it obviously time to relax, take a breather, and discuss a topic on the lighter side of life... ...let's talk the end of the world! I'...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 21, 2009, 4:00 am
Christians have to get stuck poo-pooing everything. We just have to be the wet blankets. If it's cloning, gambling, gay marriage, abortion, or Harry Potter, there's probably going to be some ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 18, 2009, 4:00 am
I fancy myself a hard hitting news reporter man. And there's a lot of great bloggers out there. Really, a lot of awesomely funny and intelligent people who you need to know about. I decided to st...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 16, 2009, 4:00 am
Monday, I talked about the useless arguments Christians are prone to use when trying to convince non-believers about God. Let's turn the tables. Because there's a few asinine arguments up a l...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 14, 2009, 4:00 am
Christians love to argue. I think we like to argue with each other, just to take a break from arguing with non-Christians. Christians often times like to try to 'prove' Christianity to non-b...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 11, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone, have I got a story for you! After reading so many stories of people visiting the afterlife, I knew I had to get a first hand look at the place. Then I decided a second-hand look was jus...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 9, 2009, 4:00 am
Hey everyone! Hope you had a great Labor Day. Now get back to work! Kent Shaffer over at the excellent Church Relevance has created an updated list of his top 100 Christian blogs (by visitors, and ot...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 4, 2009, 4:00 am
Last month, it was reported that a young woman who graduated college in May was suing her college. She wanted a full refund of the $70,000 she spent in tuition. The reason? She hasn't yet found a ...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Sep 2, 2009, 4:00 am
First, if you're looking for porn, I apologize, because there will be a lot of you who will be disappointed. You can't use this stuff. It's too hard, too weird, too unnatural for anyone...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 31, 2009, 4:00 am
Anyone ever met a pastor that just weirded you out? A survey done by The Church of No People Institute finds that approximately 100% of people have at least one time been weirded out by a pastor. A l...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 28, 2009, 4:00 am
People die all the time. I'm told one day that I will die, although I am so youthful and handsome and full of life, I have a hard time believing this. If I am to really die and go to heaven, I thi...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 26, 2009, 4:00 am
I commented a couple of weeks ago that if there’s one thing Christians like doing, it’s finding out who’s 'in the club.' By that I mean finding out who's a Christian? Now if someon...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 24, 2009, 4:00 am
With the economy still in the dumps, more people than ever are watching where they put there money. Which means more Christians than ever are trying really hard to come up with good reasons they shou...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 21, 2009, 3:00 pm
Thank you, everyone for enthusiastically participating in my first giveaway. There were lots of entries, but not so many that everyone didn't still have a good shot at winning. I met some new read...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 21, 2009, 4:00 am
Have you ever left everything behind? It's probably a whole lot harder if you have a lot to leave behind. This week, school started up and at our district's convocation we got a special gues...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 19, 2009, 4:00 am
This blog post is in no way political. Except there's a new Gallup poll. Apparently, a bunch of people in this country identify themselves as 'conservative.' In fact, so many label themse...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 17, 2009, 4:00 am
Want to win some cool, free stuff? Well that's just what you can do today! Today is the first official Church of No People Contest-For-People-Who-Like-Free-Stuff! I should get a job naming contes...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 14, 2009, 4:00 am
Thanks to you, the 'Ten People Who Will Kill Your Church' were the most visited and talked about posts ever on this blog...which means something like 50 people read them! Woo! It was really gr...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 12, 2009, 4:00 am
If you haven't checked out Matthew Paul Turner's blog this week, you should, and not just because he shares my name. He's been doing a great series on Christian sex ethics. I mean, he'...
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Matt A. posted an article on The Church of No People - Aug 10, 2009, 4:00 am

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