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Stories from Church Starters
Restarting Our Church: September 1st, 2019
“Four months after Ephesus died, I saw longtime members of the church smiling as they stood and sang next to new friends we’d never seen before. Ephesus Baptist Church died, but on Sunday, the first day of the week, Jubilee Baptist Church rose to walk in newness of life.”
ICEBERG JESUS
So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV). Christ changes our perception and gives us the ability to see things from God’s perspective. When we accept Christ...
5 Points to Consider About Growth
Growth can be addicting. There are a plethora of materials available for personal growth, professional growth, church growth, growing your business, etc. If our desire for growth goes unchecked, we can find ourselves in a never-ending revolving door of...
WILL THEY COME?
WILL THEY COME? In the Parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14, the wedding banquet is one of the most joyous occasions in Jewish life and could last for up to a week with festivities. In this parable, Jesus compares heaven to a wedding feast that a king was...
Church at Its Core
A picture of Michael (second from the right) and others in the Mosaic community serving during one of their "Fifth Sunday Missional Projects." One of my main hopes as I began my ministry at Mosaic Church of Clayton was to experience church in a different,...
Responding in a Worthy Manner
A colleague emailed me with a question regarding why a program wouldn't work correctly on her computer. I went to her room to see what was going on. I walked her through the steps to get it working and got to the point where you select "allow" (for access to the...