Discipleship — First-Look Friday

Epiphany Part Two: The Magi and Spring Church

8 minute read

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, AdventSpring ChurchJanuary 7, 2021Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friends

Epiphany Part One: How are Ruth & the Wise Men connected?

5 minute read

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, Advent, The Book of RuthSpring ChurchDecember 31, 2020Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friends, ruthComment

Filling the Room Created by 2020

4 minute read

God Prepares Room Through the Events We Didn’t Choose

7 minute read

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, AdventSpring ChurchDecember 11, 2020Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

Participating with God in the room prepared by 2020

8 minute read

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, AdventSpring ChurchNovember 17, 2020Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

Advent Small Groups

3 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchNovember 12, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

Ruth’s Genealogy, God’s Grand Story

3 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchNovember 5, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

Speaking Truth

4 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of RuthSpring ChurchOctober 22, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, jesusComment

Practiced Hatred

2 minute read

Uncommon Friendship, Common DiscipleshipSpring ChurchOctober 15, 2020Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

If You Want Something To Be Better

1 minute read

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, JusticeSpring ChurchSeptember 30, 2020Discipleship, God, jesus, uncommon friends, justiceComment

How Do I Find My Vocation?

7 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchSeptember 22, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

When God’s Voice Is Hard To Hear

5 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchSeptember 10, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, jesus, uncommon friendsComment

What if Jesus isn't an American?

3 minute read

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon Friendship, JusticeSpring ChurchSeptember 2, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, webinar, justice, jesus, reconciliationComment

When Our Individual Faith Moves Into The Neighborhood

4 minute read

While we don’t know (because the narrator doesn’t tell us) what sort of habits and practices helped Ruth become the sort of woman who was walking in the direction God was walking in, we see the fruit of those practices when she’s making ordinary, everyday decisions like trying to find a place to get food.

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchAugust 26, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, eatingComment

Ordinary, Everyday Habits and Decisions

3 minute read

While we don’t know (because the narrator doesn’t tell us) what sort of habits and practices helped Ruth become the sort of woman who was walking in the direction God was walking in, we see the fruit of those practices when she’s making ordinary, everyday decisions like trying to find a place to get food.

Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchAugust 19, 2020Discipleship, ruth, God, eatingComment

Walking with God in a Big Decision

5 minute read

One of the benefits of our common discipleship is the ability to make great decisions, as we walk in the direction God is walking in.

Common Discipleship, The Book of RuthSpring ChurchAugust 6, 2020Discipleship, ruth, marriage, GodComment

Invisible People Have A Name

8 minute read

These stories of how God uses invisible people appear throughout the Bible and throughout history, and a few years ago I started looking for people working in ‘invisible’ occupations. Now, whenever I pass a person stocking the shelves at the grocery store, a person cleaning a building I’m in, or a person working in landscaping, I try to look them in the eyes and say “thank you” as I go by.