Pastoral Reflection 9.13.15
What is a Parent/Child Dedication and why should YOU care?
About once or twice a year we do something we call a Parent/Child Dedication. That name is intentional. We want to emphasize that there is nothing that the baby is actually doing. It's not a "baby" dedication. Instead, it's the parents who are dedicating themselves to teach their children the good news of Jesus.
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Pastoral Reflection 9.6.15
City on a Hill is Five!
CoaH is five and like most five year olds we’re a lot of fun but definitely don’t have everything figured out. We have made some mistakes, learned a lot, and have seen God move in some great ways over the last five years.
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Pastoral Reflection 8.30.15
Just a week later, I look back on Party In The Park with incredible gratefulness.
We were able to serve families and friends in our neighborhood with a fun event,
give some children much-needed school supplies for the upcoming year, and
continued our practice of being a good presence in our neighborhood.
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Pastoral Reflection 8.23.15
God has a heart for cities. The reason we know this truth is that cities are full of people and God loves people. God doesn’t hate the rural areas but he has a special heart for the cities because of the concentration of people.
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Pastoral Reflection 8.9.15
The Internet broke this week for me. I was in Nashville and could not get online, at least from my iPhone. The reason is AT&T had a major cellular data outage over Tennessee and Kentucky. It was like I was living in 1987 for most of the day on Tuesday.
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