Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jan 19, 2012, 4:57 pm
If anyone had a right to be upset or hold a grudge it was Joseph. How many people can say their family sold them into slavery? Unfortunately too many. That they then were falsely accused of rape? Also, more than we think. Joseph suffered great injustice – something that many people today suff...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jan 12, 2012, 3:51 pm
Abraham decided to take matters into his own hands when God didn’t provide a child right away.  He took Hagar, slept with her, and then after she conceived had to send her away to keep his wife happy.  What a mess!  God had intended this promise for Abraham and Sarah (as is revealed later) but ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jan 4, 2012, 4:22 pm
The creation is this giant explosion of life!  God speaks this beautiful world alive only to have it spoken dead by our, “Yes” to temptation.  We wanted more than a perfect world, perfectly alive, and ended up half-dead because we believed a half-truth.  In wanting to be like God we became le...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Dec 28, 2011, 4:30 am
I’m so excited to read through The Story together as a church.  Now many of you have never read through the entire Bible from cover to cover, let me tell you this will be a treat.  There is something amazing about journeying through scripture and seeings God’s epic story unfold.  It helps us ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Aug 25, 2011, 3:26 pm
Take a look at the new BG Christian Church website!  If you’ve been redirected here it’s because all the switches throughout the interweb have not been properly flipped.  Visit bowlinggreenchristian.org without the “www” for your best chance to visit our new website.
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Aug 19, 2011, 4:01 pm
I remember reading this article after we had Bailey, as she’s grown so has my appreciation of Dan Neil’s thoughts on the American Girl phenomenon.  This article is recommended reading for parents, especially of girls, and your thoughts on it are welcome here.  We have a six-year old party we�...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Aug 15, 2011, 1:07 pm
We are looking for your help with the new church website.  Please take a look at the following screenshots of model websites and let us know which you like the best.  We ask that each person vote once, but let everyone in the family have a turn!  Based on your responses we will pick one of these ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Aug 1, 2011, 11:51 pm
The BG Christian Church website is undergoing maintenance and we are preparing for unveiling a new web site soon.  Members and attenders looking to access CCB need to go to bgcc.ccbchurch.com. In the meantime here is the vital information for the Bowling Green Christian Church. Sunday Service Tim...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 16, 2011, 7:30 am
“Anyone who claims to be a prophet, or to have spiritual powers, must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.  Anyone who does not recognize this is not to be recognized.” –  1 Corinthians 14:37–38 Prayer is great, but it’s not perfect.  Preaching and teach...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 14, 2011, 7:30 am
“The women should remain silent in the churches.  They should not be allowed to speak, but must be in submission as the law says.  If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.  Did the word of God ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 13, 2011, 7:30 am
”For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.  And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 (NRSV) Love completes our ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 12, 2011, 7:30 am
“Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always ‘me first,’ Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins o...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 11, 2011, 7:30 am
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, ‘Jump,’ and it jumps, but I do...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 8, 2011, 7:30 am
Take time today to review what we’ve read in 1 Corinthians 1-10. Begin by praying and asking God to help you hear his voice in the scripture and then read imagining that you are a member of the Corinthian church. As the epistle is read, what tone do you imagine Paul taking? Is he angry? Passio...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 7, 2011, 7:30 am
“Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 5, 2011, 10:24 am
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other.” – 1 Corinthians 10:23-24 (NRSV) Today’s devotion is simple, read that verse, then read it again.  Then pray… De...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 4, 2011, 7:25 am
“So, my very dear friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control, get out of their company as fast as you can. I assume I’m addressing believers now who are mature. Draw your own conclusions: When we drink the cup of blessing, aren’t we taking into ourselves th...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 1, 2011, 7:30 am
“However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you. This is my rule in all the churches.” - 1 Corinthians 7:17 This verse and many other like it perplex believers.  The life that we have been assigned according to Paul might mean marriage ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 30, 2011, 7:30 am
“For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?” – 1 Corinthians 7:16 Paul has some pretty confusing language prior to this verse, things about saving the unbelieving spouse and sanctified children.  In this ve...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 29, 2011, 7:30 am
In today’s world, if you purchase your meats at Kroger or Wal Mart, you probably do not ask the meat manager if anything they sell has been offered to an idol. However, there are many reasons people refuse to eat certain foods, especially meats. For example, Jews and Muslims refuse pork; many Se...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 28, 2011, 7:30 am
“However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you. This is my rule in all the churches.” – 1 Corinthians 7:17 Have you ever thought of your marriage as a ministry? What about your relationship with your children? What about the friendshi...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 27, 2011, 7:30 am
“Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.” – 1 Corinthians 7:9 This passage is referring to the eating of “idol meat,” and technically there’s nothing wrong with the meat. Paul however says that if those who are not as knowled...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 24, 2011, 7:30 am
“I don’t want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.” –1 Corint...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 23, 2011, 7:30 am
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silve...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 22, 2011, 7:30 am
“Don’t you know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you? If anyone ruins God’s sanctuary, God will ruin him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.” – 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 These are very strong words by the apostle Paul. Once we are saved ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 21, 2011, 7:30 am
“So don’t get ahead of the Master and jump to conclusions with your judgments before all the evidence is in. When he comes, he will bring out in the open and place in evidence all kinds of things we never even dreamed of—inner motives and purposes and prayers. Only then will any one of us get ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 20, 2011, 10:59 pm
For the next five weeks there will be five posts a week, each of these is a devotional, many are written by other members of the church.  These will coincide with the weekly theme of our 1 Corinthians’ study.  I’m thankful to all those who have helped with this project and made it possible.  ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 20, 2011, 10:54 pm
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” – 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, NIV Having grown up out in the rura...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - May 4, 2011, 10:30 am
Joseph gets sold to Egypt and Plan “A” vanishes.  You know it did, I know it did.  Who imagines ruling the world while captive in a slave caravan going to a foreign country?  Enter Plan “B,” “Now what am I going to do?” is the question.  Joseph is wondering, “God, where are y...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - May 2, 2011, 6:34 pm
This book served as my first in-depth look at spiritual direction.   This term is one that is new to me in the last few years and I’ve been very interested in this ancient practice.  Spiritual direction has been common in older more mystical traditions.  It is a means of providing spiritual g...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Apr 27, 2011, 3:10 pm
“Plan A” is the plan we have for our life, and frequently we equate our plan “A” with God’s plan.  The problem is when our plan doesn’t work out, then we ask, “Was our plan ‘A’ a God-given vision or a man-made illusion?”  The answer depends on where you’re at.  If you’re i...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Mar 30, 2011, 10:54 pm
After reading a great book entitled, Should We Use Someone Else’s Sermon?: Preaching in a Cut-and-Paste World I realized the temptation many ministers face to download sermons for use in their churches.  Plagiarism is a growing problem in churches and I felt that by posting my sermon notes I was ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Nov 16, 2010, 10:52 pm
We come to worship on God’s terms not our own.  (1 Chronicles 15:1-3, John 4:1-42) 1 Chronicles 15:1-15, here we see that the Levites were selected to carry the ark.  Why the Levites?  Is it because they were better than everyone? No.  Was it because that had proved themselves worthy?  No. ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Nov 9, 2010, 11:38 am
Jesus tells us this story in Luke 19 to remind us that we have each been entrusted with a gift from God and we are accountable for it.  Our own prince of peace, has gone on a journey to heaven to prepare for us a place and has entrusted us with gifts until he returns.  What is it that God has ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Nov 1, 2010, 9:18 pm
If you have you ever felt far from God and can remember the time when you re-entered his presence, then you might have a glimpse of the feeling David felt when the ark was being brought into Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6:1-11.  God’s presence inspires in us a song of praise!  The question remains, why...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Oct 7, 2010, 1:51 pm
But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the wo...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Oct 6, 2010, 11:26 pm
I’ve been absent from the blog for awhile, during this time I’ve had a new baby (my wife did most of the work) and finished another major project I’ve been working on for a class I took.  As I’ve been away I’ve been reflecting on this blog, my time invested in it and w...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Aug 7, 2010, 9:56 pm
God’s people had been in bondage for over 140 years, they had been living in exile and longing to return to Jerusalem.  The Babylonians had captured and destroyed Jerusalem, exporting the people to foreign and distant lands.  While Daniel was alive the Persians conquered the Babylonians and had ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 16, 2010, 6:00 am
I’ve heard from many of you at church about the help of having a regular weekly study.  During the time of this last devotion, pray and ask God to show you a new venue for personal worship.  Make it your sacred act of worship today to create a new plan for connecting with God daily.  A few webs...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 15, 2010, 6:00 am
Read 1 John 5:16-20, then take the time to pray for a brother or sister who is lost.  Ask that God would show you someone you could help find their way back from their sin. In this passage John notes a difference between sin and mortal sin.  What’s the difference?  Mortal sin when viewed in co...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 14, 2010, 6:00 am
Yesterday John listed the witnesses that give us confidence in our faith, today we see what that confidence looks like in action.  As you come to the passage now go first with confidence in prayer to God.  Ask God to grant you insight into his word through his Spirit.  Read 1 John 5:13-15 and com...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 13, 2010, 6:00 am
There are many things that affirm us in our faith.  We are affirmed by the Spirit, we are affirmed by other believers, we are affirmed by our past experiences, and affirmed by our future hope.  Invite God into your time and then read 1 John 5:6-12. Did you notice all of the witnesses that God pro...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 12, 2010, 11:00 am
Unity Today Can you imagine what we could do if we all banded together?  What if we seriously, got together on one project and took maybe two weeks to do something.  Let’s say we were going to build something, maybe a tower, and we all pooled our money, someone donated some land and we just go...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 12, 2010, 6:00 am
Take the time to read 1 John 5:1-5.  Read it slowly, read it more than once, and as you do listen in your mind to John’s voice as he writes this.  John is describing you – which term do you identify with most?  Read that phrase again and listen – allow God to tell you the truth about who yo...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 9, 2010, 6:00 am
What does the way that you treat people say about you?  What do your attitudes and actions say about the God you worship?  Keep these questions in mind as you read today’s text, 1 John 4:20-21. Here John outlines a simple test for the faithful – if you love God, then you’ll love the people ...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 8, 2010, 6:00 am
Yesterday we read about God’s love bringing us confidence in tomorrow, I believe that God’s love can bring us confidence today as well.  Take time now to read 1 John 4:18-19, read it slowly and pause to consider any phrase that stands out to you. “Perfect love casts out fear.”  Where in y...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 7, 2010, 6:00 am
Take time to read 1 John 4:13-17, as you read compare your attitude about judgment day with John’s. How does your attitude compare?  Do you anticipate being filled with boldness at the throne of God?  Is fear an emotion you feel as you think of that day?  As John talks about being confident in...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 6, 2010, 9:43 pm
Recently Focus on the Family has launched a new magazine that looks to provide today’s families with the relevant, scriptural perspective that Focus has always had.  This new magazine is called Thriving Family and rivals any secular family magazine.  In this bi-monthly periodical Focus touch...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jul 6, 2010, 6:00 am
Yesterday the “natural revelation of love” was brought into focus through the love of the Father expressed through Christ.  Today, John shows us our response to God’s revelations of love.  Before you begin reading this morning thank God for his love, thank God for the cross, and thank him fo...
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Weston W. posted an article on Weston Williams - Jun 23, 2010, 6:30 am
Read 1 John 2:22-25.  John here is drawing some pretty tight lines around his “non-negotiables.”  He is saying on God’s behalf that Jesus as the Christ is the number one non-negotiable of our faith.  John probably has many beliefs that he is willing to negotiate, but not this one.  What ab...
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