Category Archives: new frontier

Pioneering in the 21st Century

Posted on May 4, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Just what is pioneering in the 21st Century? Hasn’t everything already been mapped and charted? What frontiers are left? 

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Going back and forth

Posted on April 11, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) It seems like of late there has been a spate of movie/video projects chronicling the Jesus Movement of the early 1970s. The Jesus Music (the movie) came out last year, … Continue reading →

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Help us be the voice of Christ to this century’s generation: A Survey

Posted on August 6, 2021 by jwfisch

Late in 2015, a Catch community data analyst was putting in some volunteer hours when noting approximately 12,000 millennials were landing on our dinosaur of a website monthly. “Why are you here?” we inquired. There was a multiple of responses, … Continue reading →

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Are we caught in consumer Christianity?

Posted on June 23, 2021 by jwfisch

How can I sing a new song of deliverance to those who have no hope, if, at the same time, I insist on remaining comfortable among those who do?

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OK in Christ

Posted on March 25, 2021 by jwfisch

As if we needed one more reason to be divided. On top of huge chasms in politics, conservative and liberal philosophies, racial divides, and the ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots, we now have a generational divide fueled … Continue reading →

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Going the distance

Posted on November 10, 2020 by jwfisch

  NO LONGER DRIVING THE DISTANCE:  The first thing I noticed was that the contribution was an odd number. ($___.32)  Most contributions come in as whole numbers ($000.00). And then I saw a strange note attached to the record that … Continue reading →

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‘Jesus Comin’ Back to Town’

Posted on September 21, 2020 by jwfisch

This week we are going to get to know Mark Spoelstra. Mark is listed in Wikipedia as “an American singer-songwriter and folk and blues guitarist.” From his early days in Greenwich Village, New York, he periodically brushed with fame, but … Continue reading →

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In the presence of the Lord

Posted on August 21, 2020 by jwfisch

I have finally found a place to live In the presence of the Lord                 – Eric Clapton That was then; this is now. My purpose for turning back the clock on the … Continue reading →

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Jesus unscathed

Posted on August 20, 2020 by jwfisch

Some say He was an outlaw, that He roamed across the land With a band of unschooled ruffians and a few old fishermen No one knew just where he came from or exactly what he’d done But they said it … Continue reading →

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‘Close Encounters’ getting closer

Posted on July 7, 2020 by jwfisch

One of our readers sent me this Catch this morning originally posted March 1, 2019. I’m not sure why he did, but I’m glad he did, especially as we are more aggressively building our own church now. So thank you, … Continue reading →

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