Are you busy, or are you a busybody? Are you spiritually active or spiritually inert? What roles do you play in your church? Listen to Pastor David’s message on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15.
Avoiding Cultural Accommodation
Mercy: receiving a gift of something good when you deserve something bad. Evangelism is all about diving deep into God’s mercy and allowing his love to overflow into the lives of those around you. Listen to Pastor David’s sermon on Romans 12:1-2.
Letting Scripture Breathe
What are you reading in the Bible these days? What is your routine? Do you read a lot, or a little? We can get tied up in a lot of questions like these when we think about our spiritual lives.
Here’s a different sort of question to ask yourself: Where does scripture breathe into your life? Continue reading
November Youth Update
We enter November with Olive’s yard raking project completed and two events in our history. We had a successful swimming party at Four Seasons Health Club on October 11th and enjoyed the corn maze, hayride and other activities at Grandma’s Pumpkin Patch last Sunday. Our youth meetings are reaching about 8 kids a week and our GRAD meetings are hosting 5-6 young adults. We are continuing to reach out to those families to join us regularly with Sunday morning Worship participation & attendance then urging parents to help in having their youth to grow spiritually through the ministries of Mt. Haley. Continue reading
Doctor of Ministry: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Recently, I have heard a few people at church express their concern that my Doctor of Ministry work is leading to one inevitable outcome: my “moving on” to another pastoral position at some other church. If those few people had the courage to share their feelings with me directly, I can only imagine that others of you may be feeling the same thing privately.
Let me clear some things up for you: I have no intention of leaving Mt. Haley any time soon. I am not doing this Doctor of Ministry degree as a “career advancement” move. I’m doing these studies because I believe in this ministry, the Mt. Haley Church of God, and I want to enhance both my skills as a pastor and our ministry together as a congregation. Continue reading
Hearing Jesus Speak Our Language
“To an Unknown God.” So went the inscription on a statue in ancient Athens. How does evangelism depend on learning the language of our neighbors – and on hearing Jesus speak to us? Listen to Pastor David’s message on Acts 17:16-34.
Living in a Post-Christian World
The Barna Group says that 44% of American adults are “post-Christian.” Yet the call of scripture is for Christians to do some serious self-examination. Listen to Pastor David’s sermon, the next in our series on evangelism, from 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
Quit Making Excuses
“Let the dead bury their own dead!” – Jesus
Wait, what?
We live in a culture of sound bites. Our attention spans are incredibly short, and if a story doesn’t catch our attention in the first couple of seconds, we move on. But sometimes we need to listen more carefully to what is being said. Continue reading
Who Do You Say I Am?
It’s the most important question in the history of the world. But it requires more than an answer… it requires a relationship. What’s the question? Listen to Pastor David’s sermon on Matthew 16:13-20.
The Mission: Good News
What is evangelism? Why is it so scary of a word? What does it mean? How do we do it? Pastor David helps us explore these questions in the first message, based on Matthew 28:18-20, of a new sermon series for this autumn.