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Apr 30, 20202 min read
God Knows I Miss All of You
Certainly, the most challenging aspect of this crisis has been the distance between you and me. God knows I miss all of you. I miss the...
Apr 28, 20202 min read
Showing the Community Who We Are: A Soccer Academy Update
The great innovative puppeteer Jim Henson said, “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” For the...
Apr 20, 20201 min read
Churchwide Crawfish Boil (Tentatively May 3)
Over the last several weeks, we have attempted to stay connected emotionally and spiritually, while physical proximity is not...
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Moneyball, A New Series Starting April 19
The Coronavirus has disrupted our way of life. Work, relationships, eating, hobbies, exercise, church, and on and on, we have been living...
Apr 6, 20201 min read
We Need Resurrection Now More Than Ever
Can you remember the last time that the world has been disrupted by one solitary crisis? The second World War is probably the last time...
Mar 26, 20202 min read
The Insurrectionist King We Need
Historians have argued that one of the greatest single acts of insurrection in Western history was Julius Caesar’s January 49 B.C.E...
Mar 23, 20201 min read
Yard Sale on *April 25th*, Items and Volunteers Wanted
The Ecuador Team will be hosting a Yard Sale tentatively scheduled for April 25th. Funds raised will benefit the June 2020 Mission...
Mar 9, 20202 min read
A Healthy and Growing Faith Community, an SGI Update
A few weeks back, we tackled the problematic text of Acts 5 with Ananias and Sapphira. And yet we saw the church grow out of this...
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Ecuador Lunch Fundraiser Luncheon, March 1
The Ecuador Dinner Fundraiser is rescheduled for a luncheon on Sunday, March 1. The Ecuador Team feels as though low-ticket sales is an...
Feb 4, 20202 min read
The Meaning of Ashes and Lent
In his book, Celebration of Disciplines, Richard Foster compared spiritual formation to a farmer growing grain. All he can do is provide...
Jan 28, 20202 min read
SGI Sunday Gathering Update
“The Spirit of God’s goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness, Jesus said, is always moving. Like wind, like breath, like water, the...
Jan 20, 20202 min read
Martha Stearns Marshall Sunday, February 16
We are Cooperative Baptists, which bears great significance from other forms of Baptists. For one, CBF was formed during a time when the...
Jan 16, 20202 min read
Investing in the Soccer Academy
The Gospels give us an in-depth look at the life and ministry of Jesus. One thing is abundantly clear from Jesus is that for every...
Jan 2, 20202 min read
Epiphany, Celebrating God’s Incarnational Presence
Each of the Gospels gives us a unique glimpse into the life and ministry of Jesus. Matthew offers us quite a peculiar and exclusive look...
Dec 16, 20192 min read
The Joys of the Creative Process, an SGI Update
Walt Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, wrote, “There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.”...
Dec 9, 20192 min read
An Intergenerational Church Cares
Over the last few months, the phrase “OK Boomer” and “OK Millennial” has been used endlessly on TV, the news, on social media, memes, and...
Nov 25, 20192 min read
Preparing for Advent
For the church, we now enter into the season of Advent. This is a Latin term, which means “the arrival of, anticipation of, or...
Nov 18, 20192 min read
SGI: You Bring Inherent Value
The English novelist Graham Greene wrote, “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which...
Nov 11, 20193 min read
The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
“I’m just not getting what I want and need out of the church,” said a dear friend of mine. He and his family had been struggling in the...
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Translators Wanted!
I am awful at Spanish, even though I took a semester of Spanish in college and have been to Ecuador on nine mission immersions. I can’t...
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