by Alex Kneen | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Prepare for Gathering, Worship
One of the values we hold as worship leaders is “excellence.” Psalm 33 says that praise fits the righteous. We are exhorted to play skillfully, or to offer our best, because it becomes us. Like wearing the proper garment to a wedding feast, we don our best. I desire...
by Brian Lowe | Dec 28, 2015 | Blog, Community, Mission, News, Redemption, Theology, Worship
Acts, Volume 1 has demonstrated that Jesus is alive and active. He has empowered a people for himself, gathered them into intentional community, and sent them on mission to the ends of the earth. The first part of Act served as a unique chapter in the Grand Story of...
by Brian Lowe | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog, Mission, News, Redemption, Worship
Advent Reading for Sunday, December 20, 2015 Written by Bubba Hines Mark 10:42-45 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it...
by Brian Lowe | Dec 20, 2015 | Blog, Redemption, Worship
We live in a broken world that desperately needed Jesus’ First Advent. As those who have sinned against God, we needed Jesus to come to live a perfect life and die a sacrificial death for us. We needed Jesus to conquer death for us by his resurrection so that we could...
by J. Tyler Deaton | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Mission, Money, News
Throughout December, we have had the privilege of sharing in and taking the Gospel into “the uttermost parts of the earth” through the ministries of several international partners. You have heard from those international partners for the past few weeks via video...
by Nathan Chapman | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Worship
The number of songs that we hear during this season that have to do with Santa, Reindeer, and the weather, can, unfortunately, easily out number the songs that deal with the beauty of the Incarnation. Singing about something that is so mysterious and powerful seems...
