First-Look Friday — Spring Church

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

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

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.”

Who Will Disciple You?

8 minute read

Let me ask you a personal question: Is your mother-in-law a bitter person? (Feel free to substitute “mother-in-law” with mother, father, spouse, child, sister, brother, or anyone else who is a part of your family.)

The Book of Ruth, Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, Family and YouthSpring ChurchJuly 9, 2020Comment

My Normal Life and my Great Commission Life are the Same (Part 3)

Iain’s observation, which helped me walk away from an unhealthy separation of my Great Commission life from my Normal Life, was that mentoring is something that happens best within the context of friendship. And we embodied mentorship and friendship in a way that became more clear to me. We had both, at the same time.

Uncommon Friendship, A Great Commission Life, Family and YouthSpring ChurchMay 13, 2020Comment

I Miss Eating With You

Our pursuit of food has shaped the evolution of our sensory apparatus—the very tools through which we, as a species, perceive the world. The choices we make every day about food selection, preparation, and consumption lie at the foundation of our identities and relationships and affinities. As the Italian historian Massimo Montanari succinctly put it, food is culture.

Common Discipleship, Uncommon Friendship, Family and YouthSpring ChurchApril 17, 2020Comment

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.

Common Discipleship, Uncommon FriendshipSpring ChurchMarch 25, 2020Comment