Author Archives: Jay F Guin

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.

Shout Out for Matthew Proctor

A while back, I asked for help in maintaining this website. Matthew was kind enough to pitch in to help take some of the load of my shoulders. Readers will notice that suddenly my posts have gobs of tags — … Continue reading

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Fixing Small Groups

I ran across this article and just had to share it. One of the nation’s fastest growing churches couldn’t get small groups right until they tried something radical — mission. I describe how we do this at my church in … Continue reading

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1st Annual TheoBloggers® Christian Bloggers Awards (with subliminal commentary)

Somebody up and nominated One In Jesus for an award from TheoBloggers. And so now they’ve asked me to shill for them. I am delighted to do just that (With my ego, how could I refuse. Besides, maybe it’ll help … Continue reading

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Renewing Our Worship: The Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper has always been important to the Churches of Christ. We take communion weekly. It’s so important to us that we often offer communion on Sunday nights for those unable to take it that morning, and we often … Continue reading

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Renewing Our Worship: Getting the Details Right

In most churches, worship is where a potential convert first encounters the church as community. It’s a public event — advertised as such. And it obviously is intended to communicate who we are as a people. Well, it’s obvious to … Continue reading

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Alabama Signs Another No. 1 Recruiting Class

You can’t help but notice that number 2, Ohio State, is closer to number 9 Michigan than to number 1 Alabama over the last two years. Thanks to Dr. Saturday.

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Renewing Our Worship: Getting Organized

Maybe this is too obvious. I apologize if it is. But doing worship well requires organizing the right way. And I think the reason we so often do worship badly is, in part, because we so often organize badly. Let … Continue reading

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Penn on Evangelism

This video is not a joke. In fact, it’s a serious as the fires of hell. Penn, of the Penn & Teller magic act, is famous for being an atheist and for criticizing religion — and being quite outspoken on … Continue reading

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Tim Hawkins on Leading Worship

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I Once Was Broke, But Now I’m Not

Promo video for a stewardship seminar  —

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