Church visits

Visiting: As a student of religion, I've seen how various factors in a church visit affect spiritual growth and religious attitudes as one searches for a church home. I visit churches to observe, firsthand, how they present themselves to visitors. My visits, with a few exceptions, focus on Christian churches. This blog contains accounts of those visits, and related posts. I look for the following in my visits:
• Friendliness and warmth
• Genuine welcome, true Christian hospitality
• Effective, well-delivered bible-based main teaching
• Music deepening the worship, not just entertainment

Map to churches I have visited.
My email: churchvisits@gmail.com

Contributors

Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson, an amateur biblical scholar and student of religions, is a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society for Biblical Literature (SBL). He enjoys AAR/SBL where he studies, first hand, with worldwide religious scholars. A management consultant, skilled in all aspects of 360-degree feedback programs and human resource management systems, he practices these skills as Workforce Consulting. He lives in Anchorage.

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Google map with visited churches

As I visit churches, I'll post their locations on this map.

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10 Things I’d Like Anchorage Churches to Tackle in 2012 - 1/1/2012 8:42 pm

Baxter Road Bible Church Ends “It’s Not Your Birthday” Giving Program Far Above Expectations! - 12/30/2011 11:33 am

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Second Sunday of Advent Begins Today

Posted by Chris Thompson

Posted: December 5, 2009 - 11:01 pm

Candles - 2nd Advent - St. Mary EpiscopalCandles - 2nd Advent - St. Mary EpiscopalToday, December 6, 2009, is the second Sunday of Advent. On this day the first and second of the four Advent candles are lighted. The first Advent candle, lit last week and relighted today, is often themed as representing HOPE. It will be joined in lighting by the second Advent candle which is often designated as representing LOVE. The candles are generally purple, representing royalty, i.e. the season of the coming of the King.

While not all churches observe Advent's countdown to Christmas Eve, most mainline Protestant, and Catholic churches do.

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