We climb ladders, armed with staple guns while risking life and limb, in order to put them on our houses. We loop them through the trees we put in our living rooms every December. We sit in nighttime traffic jams, hoping to catch a glimpse of them as they adorn the streets of a neighboring Read the full article…
When First Serve coincides with the winter kick-off of Room In The Inn, our weekly ministry with neighbors who are homeless, you know there’s a lot going on. We believe that people who have a living relationship with Jesus Christ serve in love, and so we provide abundant opportunities for you to do just that. Read the full article…
In preparing for an upcoming series, I looked through some planning and brainstorming notes from an earlier series. (Piece Of Work from 2009, if you must know which one.) And as I looked through the notes, what came to my mind was, “what in the world were we thinking?” It’s obvious simply from what I Read the full article…
While it can be dangerous to attach too much importance to single verses of Scripture — thereby yanking them out of context — nevertheless there is something so powerful about certain sentences in the bible. Especially those that speak of eternal life. These are the words I read to terminally ill patients and their families Read the full article…
Yesterday, Ron Dozier brought Fashion Statement to a close with a message called “Hand Me Downs.” It’s been an eventful seven weeks: we prepared 193,000 meals for Fed Up Sunday, collected 1310 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, and had a surge of worship attendance while drilling down into the meat of Colossians 3:1-12. The Read the full article…
