Is it not a sobering thought to think of all the pieces that are fitting together in your life to get you where you are today? Recently I have had the time to look at how God has brought me through so many places and...
Before I came to school at Southeastern I had no real concept of good, church membership processes. The limited amount of knowledge I had on church membership came from a shallow experience of being baptized as an unregenerate child and unknowingly being brought into membership. Shortly after I...
For the past several weeks, our church has been going through a series that we are calling, ?Church Matters.? What is the big deal about church? What do we do when we gather as a church, and why do we do what we do? In order to...
As a twenty-five year old, 27,000 dollars is a daunting, incomprehensible sum. This sum was the amount of money that I needed in order to serve at at my local church as a Generation LINK Resident. I was to raise my salary for the year,...
??The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.? Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this phrase famous in his 1933 inaugural speech after defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover in an absolute landslide in the 1932 election. To his credit, Hoover tried; but with the stock market crashing into a...
Isaiah 49:6b I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Shortly after I became a believer, I came to the realization that God?s plan for mankind was bigger than my own little world...
This past Sunday we held a free College lunch for students at Redemption Hill Church and we had over 20 students hang with us. Here?s the really cool part about these 20 students. Of the 20, 2 were seniors, 1 was a junior, 4 were...
At the beginning of each year I like to choose a word to explore in Scripture and immerse myself in it for 365 days. Figuring out a word is harder some years than it is others and so you wait, wait for the Lord to...
It?s a new year, and as residents, we are gearing up for all that the Lord plans on teaching us. Here are a few things that are going on in our world right now: We?re settling into our roles, jobs, and contexts.?The past semester was...
You may have seen the expression I Love My Church printed on t-shirts, social media and widely used as a campaign slogan for your local body. To a lost and dying world this expression could be quite perplexing. Love? Church? How could a two hour...