John Markum

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12 Reasons to Attend Edgewood on Saturday Nights

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Edgewood is an awesome church with 3 great worship services for adults, and a first-class youth service for our students every weekend. I lead the Saturday night service, sometimes known as The Awakening. Regardless of whether you attend one of these services now, have been thinking about getting back in church, or haven’t set foot in a church in forever, here are a few reasons why you might consider making Saturday nights at Edgewood your regular weekly worship experience:

  1. Sleep in on Sundays, guilt free.
  2. Awesome children’s ministry.
  3. Be part of a newer, growing service.
  4. More parking available than Sundays.
  5. You like this blog and want to hear me preach.
  6. You’ve been meaning to get back in church anyway.
  7. Create more seating for others on Sundays.
  8. Upbeat, passionate worship.
  9. Relaxed, friendly, come-as-you-are atmosphere.
  10. Exciting teaching series on practical issues.
  11. Still part of Edgewood.
  12. Much more…

See you Saturday at 6 pm. For more about our Saturday night worship experience, go to www.qcawakening.com

Blessings,

John

The Awakening turns 2!

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This week, two years ago, Edgewood launched it’s first ever Saturday night worship service, “The Awakening.” We had a ton of ideas and dreams, and the opportunity to add a new worship experience to one of the most exciting churches in the Quad Cities. The leadership of Edgewood stood beside us and gave us the chance to begin something that few other churches are willing to take the risk on.

As a result, we have seen God move in incredible ways. We’ve experienced growth in numbers of people coming to Christ, getting baptized, families joining us, and we’re just getting started. The vision to see people far from God awakened with life in Christ beats strong in our hearts and we commit ourselves again to reaching people in the Quad Cities with the Gospel.

Two years have been amazing! Year three… you’ll just have to stick around and see what God does (although I suspect there are some soon-to-be-released posts that will give some hints)!

Join us at Edgewood this Saturday night, 6 pm, for our two year celebration.

To find out more about our Saturday night service, visit our website at www.qcawakening.com

Blessings,

John

Thoughts on the World Ending this week

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I can’t speak for everyone, but the announcement that the world will end tomorrow, Saturday May 21, 2011, at 2 am is stressing me out for the following reasons:

  1. I’ve been working hard planning sermons for the entire summer and fall, none of which I’ll get to preach… supposedly.
  2. We’ve already bought groceries for next week.
  3. I don’t know what to wear.
  4. Everyone is freaking out over something that we could not possibly know the day of it’s happening.
  5. For those of us who have a relationship with Christ, we’ve got nothing to worry about anyway.
  6. I just found out that next week’s winning lotto numbers are…

Blessings,

John

P.S.

Don’t freak out, it’s not gonna happen… yet.

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