Beyond Racial Gridlock Equipping Event
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Hear Dr. George Yancey, Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, speak about sociological challenges facing the American church today.
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We Are A People Sent By A King
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In their book, The True Story of the Whole World, Michael Goheen, and Craig Bartholomew declare, "There is nothing quite like the Bible in the whole of all religious literature in the world. It makes a startling and rather audacious claim - to be the true story of the whole world that gives meaning to human life."
Read MoreParenting in the Digital Age with Tony Reinke
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Tony Reinke, senior writer for Desiring God and author of 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You, will speak to our congregation on the topic of “Parenting in the Digital Age.”
Read MoreWont You Be My Neighbor?
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As you consider your calling to your neighbors this summer, think about this one short phrase, “Be a front yard neighbor." Create encounters by intentionally moving part of your life to the front yard. Take a walk and meet people as you go, buy a front yard tree swing for the neighbor kids to play on, or bring the grill to the street and invite a few neighbors to join you. Bring your Life Group members along for the mission as well because community is a powerful evangelistic tool.
Read MoreHoly Week Devotional | Saturday
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Easter Saturday, usually called Holy Saturday, can seem to be a non-day. The church is still in silence, the tabernacle is empty. Yet this is a day of the most radiant expectation.
Read MoreHoly Week Devotional | Friday
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On this day, Jesus was betrayed, arrested, abandoned, accused, denied, condemned, beaten, mocked, humiliated, tortured, crucified, and ultimately executed on a cross with two other criminals. This was, without doubt, the lowest point in Jesus’ life.
Read MoreHoly Week Devotional | Thursday
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On this day, Jesus observed the Passover meal with his disciples. Passover served as a means of remembrance for the Jewish people. Packed full of symbolic imagery, the meal was celebrated to remember God’s saving work. Many years before, God’s people were slaves in Egypt. In their distress, they cried out to him and God remembered his covenant with Abraham and stepped in.
Read MoreHoly Week Devotional | Wednesday
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Although the Gospels do not mention this day, we’re going to consider Jesus washing his disciples' feet in John 13:1-17.
Jesus has gathered with his closest friends. The food is all set. Conversations are being had and Jesus knows the time has come time to depart out of this world to the Father (John 13:1). But even in this moment, his thoughts are of his friends.
Holy Week Devotional | Tuesday
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On this day, Jesus faces opposition from the religious and political leaders in the temple courts. They are united in their desire to stop him. They want him killed.
Read MoreHoly Week Devotional | Monday
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On this day, Jesus made his way to Jerusalem to visit the Temple. On his way, he saw a fully leafed fig tree and, in his hunger, went to examine it for fruit. However, the fig tree, appearing by its leaves to have fruit, was fruitless. In his disappointment, Jesus cursed the fig tree. The next day the disciples noted and marveled that the fig tree had withered under Jesus’ word of judgment (Mark 11:20). In this event, Jesus is not simply “hangry” – that condition we are all familiar with of being so hungry you are angry. No, Jesus is performing a prophetic act. He was expecting fruit from Israel and her leaders, but upon examination, he has found her fruitless. She was invited to repent and to bear fruit in keeping with her repentance, but she, following her leaders, persisted in unbelief. They would eventually experience God’s judgment for their rejection of Jesus and their unfaithfulness.
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