Why do you show up for Sunday worship? Bored? Lonely? Peer Pressure? Guilty? Searching? Just need a different space? Want to see friends? Hope to worship God? Hear from God? Fellini’s afterwards? In his book, Practice Resurrection, Eugene Peterson recently reminded me that at its core, being and doing church goes so far beyond our typical responses: “Church is an appointed...
read moreThis run is just under 6.5 miles. Shorter routes will also be available. We'll start at 409 Westchester (near the Decatur YMCA), run through downtown Decatur and into downtown Oakhurst and the loop back!
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“The West has finally achieved the rights of man, and even excess, but man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address to the Harvard University graduating class of 1978. The full speech can be found here. Agree? Disagree? Are we a people who have done great things only to find...
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Blessed to be a Blessing It’s a simple, yet life-altering truth that Scripture repeats time and again: God has blessed us richly in Jesus Christ, and we are then called to reflect that love to the world around us by generously, sacrificially, and joyfully blessing it. Check out how one church in Cincinnati is sharing God’s love through repairing...
read moreI have recently enjoyed a number of conversations with folks who have not stepped foot in a church for quite some time – or, in fact, they never have. Inevitably the question is asked of me, “So what do you do?” and I get this “oh no, now they will not want to talk to me” feeling. “Pastor,” I reply. I’m not good at fudging the response as some pastors do when they reply, “I...
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