First-Look Friday — Spring Church

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.

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

Reminders

7 minute read

I used to seek exciting revelations from God as often as I could, until I realized that Christian faith is a walk full of reminders…

Common DiscipleshipSpring ChurchJuly 1, 2020 Comments

Introducing Ruth

8 minute read

History is going to remember where we were standing this year.

The Book of RuthSpring ChurchJune 23, 2020

Juneteenth

(2 minute read)

Last week somebody mentioned Juneteenth, and I realized that I don’t have a clue what Juneteenth is about. I’ve grown up hearing about it, it’s on my electronic calendar, and it’s always been around me. Yet, all I knew was, “It’s a holiday for African-Americans.”

JusticeSpring ChurchJune 18, 2020Comment

How do we braid justice into our everyday lives?

3 minute read (plus videos)

Old Testament prophets consistently talk about how pandemics, pestilences, and plagues make visible sins that are easily hidden, and the sin of racism in America has certainly been visible in the last few weeks.

JusticeSpring ChurchJune 10, 2020Comment

Hearing from African-Americans in the Church

Resource Library - Blog itself <5 min read

This week I’d like to listen to the African-American voice right now. Several of the folks at Spring Church contributed their favorite articles, videos and podcasts to this blog post.

JusticeSpring ChurchJune 5, 2020Comment

What if My Pentecost Life and my Normal Life is the Same Life?

7 minute read

Pentecost has often been a peculiar day for me. I love the story of how the third member of the Trinity is sent: I love the fire, and wind, and the Church preaching in a miraculous foreign language. I love reading the book of Acts like a script for a movie, and I love how this story reminds us every year about how the Holy Spirit is still with the Church today.

A Great Commission Life, Family and YouthSpring ChurchMay 27, 2020 Comment