Our church (Midtown Fellowship) has been meeting for five years. We have 450-ish members, 60-something small groups, and around 800 people coming. And we have never (except for a VERY brief stint) had services on Sunday mornings. Can you believe that? (Just in case you don’t know, that is extremely rare.) We’ve begged and pleaded …
I don’t know of any person alive who’s faith has been more of an inspiration to me than that of Matt Chandler (pastor at The Village Church in TX). I don’t even listen to his podcast religiously like many people I know, but God has used his preaching to grow and influence me in profound …
This story from BET almost sounds too good to be true. But I am oh so very glad that it is true. (Excerpt below) The Black church has taken over the KKK, or at least a store selling its memorabilia in South Carolina. A circuit court judge recently ruled that New Beginnings Baptist Church is …
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Following Jesus isn’t about “turning over a new leaf”. It’s about a whole new tree…a whole new us, by God’s grace. -Scotty Ward Smith The word “new” is all over the Bible. It is a word that God seems to be particularly fond of. Here are just a few examples: Therefore, if anyone is in …
I think THIS is a brilliant idea from blogger Alece Ronzino: instead of making an ambitious list of resolutions for the new year–to choose one word to focus on for the entirety of 2012. Just one word. You can remember that, right? You can keep up with that. You won’t have to bear the guilt …
Here is a Christmas poem/spoken word performed by my friend Ant Frederick. Please do enjoy it because it’s awesome. Also, Merry Christmas! And lastly, this: Long lay the world in sin and error pining Til He appeared and the soul felt it’s worth. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks …
“Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.” 1 Peter 1.8 For the past several weeks, this verse has been jumping at me. It’s been haunting my mind and even conversations I’ve …
If you have read my blog before, you know that I ADORE my wife and I love my marriage. But it’s funny sometimes when I talk to single people and they talk about marriage like it’s some weird, foggy reality that can’t be described. I tell them that the most overlooked part of marriage that …
This may be news to some. Marriage doesn’t get a good rap these days. Most people talk like they want to get out of the old “ball and chain”, or at least get a hall pass. But I would like to report that as of today, I have been married for 4 years. To the …
The last few days the role of men in our culture has been on my mind a lot. I’ve been thinking about the general passivity and laziness that personifies so many men in our country, and even thinking back to middle and high school where it became cool for us as boys to be lazy …
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