Terra Nova Church Blog

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Archive for April, 2006

Get your Phil of Driscoll……..

April 26th, 2006 // Scott Womer [worship arts pastor]

A couple things you may want to go out and invest a couple dollars and some time into:

1} Mark Driscoll’s new book, “Confessions Of A Reformission Rev” (Zondervan).
Mark is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA and has been a great help and [...]

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Holy Week @ Terra Nova

April 21st, 2006 // Scott Womer [worship arts pastor]

What an amazing Easter season we had at Terra. From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Christ was experienced, mourned, and celebrated in relevent, powerful, and creative ways. I loved our dark and somber Good Friday service as we brought new life to the Stations Of The Cross through art work, scripture, meditation, prayer, and song. [...]

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Happy B-day Apple

April 13th, 2006 // Ed Marcelle [lead pastor]

“good to be older, uh huh.
would not exchange a single day or year.”
~John Lennon
I remember getting an apple // one Christmas. It had a software tool called “the incredible jack.” that was the early efforts at software suites for users. it was the jack of all trades program.
I remember the 1984 ad [...]

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Pappa Bono

April 12th, 2006 // Ed Marcelle [lead pastor]

With so many focusing on St. Bono these days, you never know.

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Acts29 and Peers in this Church thing

April 7th, 2006 // Ed Marcelle [lead pastor]

It was a very Acts 29 Sunday @ Terra, and I am glad.
Before the service even started, before Deli-icious had yet open, David Pinckney and family came from Concord, NH to hand deliver a check. It was the size you probably like to hand deliver and an amazing gift to receive. It came [...]

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The Trippy Preservice

April 6th, 2006 // Scott Womer [worship arts pastor]

Many of you have asked about the electronica/trippy/trance stuff we play prior to services at Terra Nova. Here is a sample of the main artists we rotate through. I look forward to the place where we are playing recordings of these types of artists from within Terra. Or better yet, these artists within Terra are [...]

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is terra nova an emerging church?

April 5th, 2006 // Phil Taylor [executive pastor]

Recently I was asked to help a friend and student out with a project for school. The project centered on studying “The Emerging Church”, and involved interviewing a pastor from such a church. While I really don’t feel comfortable defining Terra Nova in that way, we probably do share a fare amount in common with [...]

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