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About Us

This is the blog page for Church of the Cross in Mahomet, IL.  This page is intended to generate helpful and intentional discussion among members of our church throughout the week, continue our conversations between gatherings, and provide helpful resources to our members.  

All who stumble upon this discussion are invited to join in.

 

Community Groups

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

This was the question for our community group discussion last night.  As we saw, it is a complex question with a complex answer, though it is a question that leads very directly into the gospel.  There are several ways to approach this question, but I don’t want to rehash our entire conversation.  Feel free to [...]

Time…

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Tonight in our community group we discussed the question, “What does God require of our calendar?”  We talked about what the Bible says about balancing work, family, and rest.  Ironically we ran out of time before we could discuss the question of time commitments related to the church.  It was an interesting discussion and we [...]

Money

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The community group topic this week is “Money.” Yes, that is rather general and vague. Here’s how it will work:
The floor will be open for anyone to bring up any Scripture you have found relating to money/wealth/poverty. I will have my own list just in case, and make sure we hit certain topics, but I [...]

Burning Questions, Pt. 2

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

UPDATE: New question added.
Nobody submitted any questions to be voted on before Sunday, so we will do something else this week in community group. However, some questions were submitted Sunday and yesterday, so I will include those here for you to vote on. The questions that get the most votes will determine the next several [...]

Truth and Spirituality

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Last night’s community group discussion revolved around two related issues - truth and spirituality.  We first viewed this video regarding Oprah Winfrey’s web seminar class (what some have called a “church”).  Our discussion led us to understand that among the many flaws of Eckhart Tolle (Oprah’s guest and teacher of the seminar) and Oprah were the foundational issues of truth [...]

Burning Questions

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Starting next week in our community group we will discuss the most burning questions you have.  But in order to do that, I need to know what your burning questions are.  It could be a question about a specific doctrine or text of Scripture, or a hot-button ethical issue, or why we do things a [...]

Invisible Children

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Invisible Children is the movie we watched in our community group tonight.  It is a documentary dealing with the issue of children in Uganda being abducted into a barbaric rebel army and the plight of those who seek to avoid capture and those who escape. 
If you saw this movie with us, what did you think [...]