March 1, 2024
by Brian Boswell
| Tags: wilmington, delaware, immanuel church, increase, 1 corinthians, seed, grow
Last spring I must have completed hundreds of job applications. I had maybe half a dozen phone interviews but only 2 onsite, live in-person interviews. As discouragement tried to gain entrance, I decided to leave the house and get my hands dirty. It was time to start the garden anyway, so I put in some corn, tomatoes, squash, green beans, spinach, cucumbers and potatoes. A...
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May 11, 2023
by Brian Boswell
| Tags: immanuel, delaware, Blog, who am I, post
Who am I? I think these may be the most important questions we ask....
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March 23, 2023
by Brian Boswell
| Tags: immanuel, Blog, hunger, wilmington, delaware
My father died about a month ago. Watching him suffer in those last few days reminded me something about hunger....
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December 10, 2022
by Daniel Nelms
| Tags: wilmington, delaware, immanuel church, jesus, madman, Gospel
In our secular world, maybe we should embrace being the madman....
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December 17, 2021
by Daniel Nelms
| Tags: Christmas, theology, peace, Advent, wilmington, immanuel, delaware
The challenge of Christmas: can the church embody it within the chaos of our present world?...
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May 29, 2021
by Daniel Nelms
| Tags: church, wilmington, delaware, growth, american christianity
In decades and centuries past, most of America had a basic shared worldview and values system that somewhat reflected Scripture. This has rapidly diminished since the 1960s. Since the 1980s, it has been argued that the church has not grown tremendously through conversion, but rather through transfer growth as churches close and new ones are planted. Young people ...
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November 7, 2020
by Daniel Nelms
| Tags: immanuel, church, delaware, Election, Trump, Biden, Results
How do we as a church respond to the election results? By keeping our eyes focused on what has always remained: the Great Commission. ...
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October 24, 2020
by Daniel Nelms
| Tags: immanuel, church, wilmington, delaware, Christianity, Election, Politics, 2020
The Church must raise its ambitions far beyond the White House, and look to our neighbors. ...
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