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When Our Individual Faith Moves Into The Neighborhood
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.

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Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchDiscipleship, ruth, God, eatingComment
Ordinary, Everyday Habits and Decisions
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.

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Common Discipleship, The Book of Ruth, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchDiscipleship, ruth, God, eatingComment
Invisible People Have A Name
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.

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The Book of Ruth, Common DiscipleshipSpring ChurchRuth, Discipleship, Vocation, Jesus, God at work, Invisible
The Big Idea
The Big Idea

10 minute read

For every liturgical season in the church calendar, we focus on one particular “Big Idea” that helps us embody the Story of what God is already doing in our neighborhood. If we think of the Big Idea as a river, then here’s how Spring Church is entering into the incredible reality that: “God is at work and at play in the everyday joys and frustrations of ordinary life.”

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Common Discipleship, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchRuth, Faith and Ordinary Life, Big Idea, Summer 2020, Summer, Mission, Structure, Spring ChurchComment
You Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone

I wrote these prayers for my diverse group of friends, scattered around the globe, to help us all remember that we are not alone, and to help us walk through this season together and with Jesus who loves us and keeps us. Also, candidly, writing these prayers also helps me reflect on the joys and the struggles of the last two weeks, to help me remain connected to the incredible emotional rollercoaster of this pandemic.

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