Matt Moran

A New Name For Our Soulcare Communities

by Matt Moran April 13, 2012

The following is about our moving to a new name for our smaller communities: After about a year of conversation among our pastors, soulcare leaders and lots of Seven Milers. we’ve decided to move to version 2.0 for the naming of our smaller communities. For the past several years we have referred to these groups [...]

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Being Shaped By The Scripture

by Matt Moran January 8, 2012

At Seven Mile Road we desperately want our Sunday morning gatherings to work in tandem with the smaller communities during the week. We want the preached Word on Sunday to find concrete application in the smaller setting. One of the ways that this happens is through our Soulcare Community Leaders who lead us to apply [...]

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Is It Working? Six Thoughts On Mission @ Seven Mile Road

by Matt Moran November 23, 2011

At Seven Mile Road we’ve always said as a church, that as a rule, we are going to be doing mission through our small communities. Rather than promoting a number of church wide programs or initiatives we’ve said that mission to our cities will be happening primarily through our local soulcare communities. Naturally, one of [...]

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Doubting & Mission

by Matt Moran November 6, 2011

Last week I was able to spend 40 minutes listening to Dave Harvey speak about church planting.   This brother was talking about the Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20, a passage that a lot of us are already familiar with.   Although the words are familiar my soul found much profit as Harvey opened up this chunk of [...]

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Blogging Through “A Praying Life” Part Two

by Matt Moran August 30, 2011

Many of us have been reading Paul Miller’s book “A Praying Life” over the summer. To help us go deeper in our emphasis on prayer I am writing a series of blog posts inspired by Miller’s book. One of the author’s main emphases is prayer as helplessness. To pray is to acknowledge that you need [...]

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Blogging Through “A Praying Life”

by Matt Moran July 27, 2011

After his sermon on July 10th, Kevin shared Paul Miller’s book  A Praying Life with our Soulcare Community leaders. Since so many of us are reading through this book as a companion to our summer series on prayer, I will be writing a series of blog posts reflecting on Miller’s book. On page 20, Miller [...]

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Seven Thoughts On The Soul Sabbath

by Matt Moran June 14, 2011

This past Saturday, about a dozen of our Soulcare leaders shared a day of silence.  Pastor Kevin led with a brief introduction to the practice of silence and solitude, and we spend most of the next five hours scattered throughout the Melrose building, alone with our Bibles and journals. Seven thoughts from an unusual Saturday: [...]

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“Studied By All Who Take Pleasure In Them”

by Matt Moran May 18, 2011

(Thoughts on living out the Gospel in community from Pastor Matt) “Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all those who take pleasure in them.” – Psalm 111:2 It’s part of our fallen condition that we quickly forget where God has brought us in the myopia of our current struggle. In my Soulcare [...]

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