Valleys
Aaron Bryant (YD Adventure guide /trainer, ACC Member, Hands On Films filmmaker, and husband / father of 4+) once again finds himself by and large locked away in his top secret film studio for a season of intense video editing. This latest project, Valleys, is the second large-scale effort of its kind for Hands On […]
ACC Provides Clean Water for Hundreds in Haiti
Christmas: 2011. Anacortes Christian Church joined thousands of other churches in rethinking Christmas for the third year. We challenged each other to truly consider the meaning behind the Advent Season. Does the way we celebrate Christmas in our culture truly allow us to experience the full impact of Christ’s coming, with all its implications? We […]
Extreme is not so Extreme
This Sunday our Pastor John Douglas gave a challenging and thought-provoking message entitled “Extreme Unity.” This was the fourth message in ACC’s current “iWitness” series, based on the book of Acts. If you missed Sunday’s message, I would strongly encourage you to listen to it HERE. In the message, John makes several crucial points. First, […]
Adopting New Staff; Adapting New Ideas
Well, not to be misleading, but the ideas mentioned in the title are actually not new at all. What is new, however, is the intentionality with which the elders and leaders of Anacortes Christian Church are approaching the way ministry is conducted in general. If you’ve frequented ACC at all in the last ten years, […]
I Don’t Like Urgent Things
I don’t like urgent things. I like it when everything fits into my schedule and stays quiet and out of the way until I want to focus on it (which means never!). The brakes on my car annoyed me a couple of weeks ago–they became urgent. I thought that squeaking noise was simply some stubborn […]
Rethinking Christmas
The story of Christ’s birth is a story of promise, hope, and a revolutionary love. So, what happened? What was once a time to celebrate the birth of a savior has somehow turned into a season of stress, traffic jams, and shopping lists. And when it’s all over, many of us are left with presents […]
The Most Misused Biblical Term…
The following article was written by Scott McKnight and posted on the Neue Magazine Web Site. I find it interesting that McKnight doesn’t even comment on the fact that the term “Kingdom” is also often misused to mean “heaven,” or more specifically, the place we go after we die, implying that God’s Kingdom isn’t relevant […]
John’s Jericho Walk: Day 4
8:55pm to 10:25pm in the dark. That’s 4.5 miles in one hour and thirty minutes. That’s my record! It’s easier to walk quickly in the dark. Fewer distractions? Not really. Perhaps there are more. You just can’t see them. In the dark, people are merely silhouettes. Also things are spookier in the dark which tends […]
Jericho Walk: Days 2 & 3
Day 2 I experienced it! Teresa brought to our attention the possibility of let-down of the second day march around Jericho. Day 2 is already showing signs of a routine, the “same ole thing!” without anything really happening.. I didn’t notice all the opportunities to buy liquor along Commercial. I didn’t notice the banks. I […]
“Jericho Walk” Day 1
In the past weeks of ACC’s “God’s Redemptive Story” series, a common theme has jumped out at us: Giants in the land. God told the Israelites, “I’ve given you this land…” But when the people saw the fortified cities and the giants, they were afraid – afraid enough to question God. 40 years later, God […]