Clay Christian Fellowship

Romans 15:14
“I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.”
 
In his new book, Strength in Numbers, Dr. Mark Shaw has presented the church in America [and abroad] with a replication model of ministry that can impact the Kingdom of [...]

Tags: biblical counseling, biblical counselor, Clay Christian Fellowship, Dr. Mark Shaw, Focus Publishing, local church, new book, Strength in Numbers, team ministry, Truth In Love Ministries
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We have been learning in our family integrated sunday school class about how the law of God in the 10 commandments can be likened to a banana :
 
Watch this!
What color is a banana?                      Yellow
Now open it up. What color is the part you eat?                  White
 
Now take a bite out of it, and look into the center [...]

Tags: 2 Samuel, 5th commandment, authority, banana illustration, Bible Bee, family class, Family-integrated church, King David, study, submission
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Recently, I spent some time with a group of children, playing board games and having fun. Later on in the day, we were talking about PSALM 139, and how God made us and knitte us together in our mother’s womb, and particularly I was describing the meaning and awe of the phrase, “He formed our inward parts.”
I [...]

Tags: apologetics, Bible, Bible Bee, Family-integrated church, great discusssions with children, Let God Speak and Let us Listen, McDavid, psalm 139, truth, what is truth, why believe the Bible
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I have only read the first half of this intriguing new book, hot off the Bible-upholding, God-honoring presses of Answers in Genesis and I am on my face before the LORD.
Mark and I had the privilege of seeing Ken Ham speak while at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky in May, and once again came away [...]

Tags: Already Gone, Answers in Genesis, authority of scripture, Britt Beemer, creation museum, God, Ken Ham, Sally Michael, state of the nation, Sunday school, Sunday school Curriculum
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We took a much needed vacation and stayed with friends who were very hospitable to all six of us Shaw’s. What a great blessing Christian fellowship is! So that was the break in our blogging pattern there. It seems we are getting more and more hits these days according to our stat counter.

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“So what’s so different about Clay Christian Fellowship’s youth program this summer?”
First of all, there is one!
“Great, but aren’t there plenty of God-honoring activities and programs and events across the nation in which youth can participate to grow in their faith?”
“Well, yes but maybe not like this one…”
 
At Clay Christian Fellowship we are endeavoring to do everything [...]

Tags: challenge, Clay Alabama, Clay Christian Fellowship, cleanse, day of judgment, family-intergrated church, Jesus Christ, Mike Cleveland, purify, purity, setting captives free, Strength in Numbers, Summer youth program, Sunday school team leaders, team ministry, youth
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“Ouch Moments” are those painful moments in the Christian life when God, who is love, chastens those whom He loves as a son or daughter, and thus we are greatly comforted.

Tags: Calvary road, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Don't Waste Your Life, ignorance, mirage of safety, ouch moments, Piper, risk
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I am usually a person who starts something and tries hard to finish the task before launching into a new one, i.e. dishes, if I get started, [key word: if] then very little will stop me. Anyone else have this problem? I have often sinfully boasted to myself of this trait.
But, ah, God is changing me. [...]

Tags: Already Gone, Britt Beemer, chastening, Clay Alabama, Clay Christian Fellowship, Damsels in Distress, discipline, Don't Waste Your Life, instruction, John Piper, Ken Ham, Martha Peace, Paul David Tripp, PMS, Todd Hillard, Whiter Than Snow
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The first ever “Bible Bee” – already having a profound impact for the Kingdom of Christ!

Tags: God's Word, growing in Christ
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I am so pleased to announce to the world that my husband, Pastor Mark Shaw, has a new book available through Focus Publishing now. It is called Strength In Numbers because it outlines the details and rationale for all personal ministry in the local church — whether formal or informal — to be done in [...]

Tags: AWANA, biblical counseling, Focus Publishing, Pastor Mark Shaw, Strength in Numbers, Team counseling
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