Our recent Holy Week was a time of fellowship, communion and celebration beginning with our Maundy Thursday service, Good Friday 12-hour prayer vigil and climaxing in our Sunday morning worship service. While the rest of the world focuses on the secular aspects of the season, on Resurrection Sunday, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of…
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Don’t miss Paul’s video on twitter showing what he’s doing in Israel. There’s also a very moving clip of Paul sharing a few words about his experience if you watch to the end.You can watch it here – from the website – by scrolling to the twitter section on the bottom right or if you have a twitter account you can follow…
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. The Lenten season differs in many ways from the Advent season: we don’t decorate the church with lights and greens, we don’t sing carols, and instead of anticipating the birth of Christ, we prepare ourselves for His death and resurrection. Now, I admit that putting it that way, this all sounds kinda gloomy —…
Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing. 1 Peter 3:9 How many of you would be excited, overwhelmed with anticipation if you realized that God was calling you to do something specifically? In…
We are in a series from 1 Peter and we are looking at how God has called us to be different, to be holy. Jesus lived His earthly life interacting and ministering to the world – but He was definitely different! God has called us to do the same. We are to engage with the culture but live differently. Peter calls it…
We live in a culture that’s undergone dramatic shifts in a short period of time. Many don’t recognize the world in which we live in anymore. As a church, what are we to do? Adapt to the culture around us? Regroup and make a stand? Just hide in our walls and try to ignore what the world is doing? Beginning in February,…
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. Psalm 63:4 Well, Christmas is over and most of you are heading back to school or work or to the same routine we have been doing before the holiday season. As we look back over the last few weeks and reflect on 2017…
It’s time for new beginnings! It’s time for a fresh start! It’s time to make some resolutions! These are often statements that are made by most people at the beginning of a new year, and we as Christ followers are not really all that different! Who wants to remain the same as before? I know I don’t, because I want to continue…
“Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10b-11 Today is the first day of winter and it’s cold and rainy – a typical Georgia winter! I’ve heard it said before…