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Welcome to Anchorage, the crossroads of visitor travel to Alaska! Many Anchorage visitors, here on the weekends, would like to worship as they do normally. Some can receive specific church visit recommendations from reading or searching this blog.

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Readers of Church Visits blog know I comment often about music as entertainment, loud music, and music that is theologically unsound. Pastors should know better than surrender their pulpits for lengthy times, often longer than the sermon, to worship leaders who have scant knowledge of the theological suitability or unsuitability of the lyrics and music they are presenting.

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It’s always difficult for me to pick Easter services to attend as they are generally intended to be larger than life to satisfy the larger than normal crowd of worshipers, i.e. it’s not a normal form of worship.

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Well, finally it happened! After months of being in error, Central Christian Church, a primarily electronic-based church out of Las Vegas, has updated their website for Anchorage to actually display the correct service times. Congratulations for doing what virtually any church website coordinator should have done immediately.

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From the opening notes of I Love to Tell the Story, to the closing notes of We Are Marching in the Light of God, Beer & Hymns this past Sunday proved to be a wonderful experience of singing, dining, and raising funds for LSSA.

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Beer & Hymns, a new event sponsored by Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church, is still on for tonight, 6-8 p.m. at O'Bradys in the Carr's Huffman shopping center.

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Taken Two Weeks After My VisitIf a church organization is trying to start and grow a church, I'm curious as to why they would allow the wrong worship time being posted on their website long after they've been told it's wrong. A commercial business would not long survive if key pieces of business information were missing from their website.

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SUMMARY
This church disappointed me in the following ways:
-Wrong service time posted on website (and still is as of 4/2/13) although alerted 1 1/2 wks ago
-Pastor outrageously referred to Communion as only the SNACK, while the after church BBQ was the real meal
-Interested in Anchorage numbers only: projected 24,000 members which is similar to Vegas
-Little reference to scripture

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Foodstock VI - Beer & Hymns, a fundraising ministry of Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church will be held at O'Brady's in the Carrs-Huffman mall on April 7 from 6-8 p.m. In addition to having a wonderful time singing hymns and enjoying fellowship with a fine group of Christians, you will be helping fill the depleted LSSA food pantry.

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I'll be attending several services around town, tweeting the ones I'm at, as appropriate.Celebrate & Share the Good News!
Well-known British theologian, and prolific author N.T. Wright offers some great Easter celebration advice in his book Surprised by Hope.

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Edward Fudge, noted author, blogger, scholar, and theologian has kindly allowed me to share yesterday's guest post in his Good Friday Blog. This is awesome!

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Yesterday I did something out of the ordinary for Good Friday. I attended what may be considered a contemporary style service at ChangePoint, a non-liturgical church.

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Another Good Friday, and worshipers are planning to attend the churches of their choice sometime today. This day observes the capture, trial, death, and burial of Jesus. For most of our city this day will be the same as any other. .

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Maundy Thursday is currently being celebrated around the world while it's already Good Friday in Asia.

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One of Anchorage’s illustrious churches has mailed out what may be considered by some to be an offensive appeal for Easter offerings. This mailing suggests that not giving at Easter is equivalent to betraying Jesus just “…as Judas did”.

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It's Palm Sunday tomorrow, March 24. Palm Sunday is celebrated in many Christian churches to commemorate Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the week he was captured, tried and crucified.

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Lent is almost over, with March 30 marking the last day of Lent. The pastors who shared their thoughts about Lent were most generous with their time*. This Lenten Reflections post is from Pastor Carlos Rapanut of Chugiak United Methodist Church.Pastor Carlo Rapanut, Chugiak UMC

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Last year I visited Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church for a special Super Bowl Sunday service. So many churches in our country cut services because parishioners would rather worship football instead of worshiping God. This year was no exception.

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I asked a couple of Anchorage pastors, who do not traditionally observe Lent, to share their thoughts about Lent. Some warm, insightful, and surprising words are being received from them.

Rick Benjamin, former Sr. Pastor at Abbott Loop Community Church, and currently Director of Organizational and Spiritual Wellness at Hope Community Resources is the first to share his thoughts.