by Eric Spivey | Apr 1, 2021 | Leader Gatherings
On February 24 we gathered Downtown community group leaders to hear from author and pastor Jonathan Dodson, who discussed how to keep the gospel central in the ways we minister as community group leaders, particularly in the kinds of hurt and grief that we have...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Job: Walking Wounded
Before we get too far from our series in Job, Walking Wounded, I wanted to take a brief moment to look back and think about what we’ve learned. Coming out of 2020, a year in which many of us experienced deep, prolonged periods of grief and loss, we turned to the...
by Eric Spivey | May 31, 2020 | Race and Gospel Unity
Sunday, May 31 – 11:55am All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog, The Lord's Prayer
The culture that created fast food and two-day shipping is not emotionally prepared for a quarantine. The American way thrives on immediacy and access – markets capitalize on it, social media runs on it, and our restless selves feed on it. But COVID-19...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 17, 2020 | General Info
Updated March 30, 12:55pm In the interest of everyone’s safety we have canceled all in-person gatherings or events until further notice. This was a tough call for us; we don’t want to cause any panic, and as one news article put it this week, it’s...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 2, 2020 | Exposition, The Lord's Prayer
As we’ve been going through our series on the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 and, depending on your Bible’s translation, you’ve maybe noticed a section of the prayer that’s missing. Here’s Matthew 6:9-13 from the English Standard...
