Scripture of the Week: "This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!" - Nehemiah 8:10b Hello Church Family! In her book Good Enough, Kate Bowler talks about how in an age where everything we do has to be for a reason (I'm reading because [...]
Scripture of the Week: "Wholesome speech is a tree of life, but dishonest talk breaks the spirit." Proverbs 15:4 Hello, Yesterday, I was having lunch with some church members, and we stopped to pray before eating. The waitress was standing right there, and she saw that we were beginning to bow our heads. She said, [...]
Scripture of the Week: "Whenever anyone asks you to speak of your hope, be ready to defend it." - 1 Peter 3:15b Hello, A couple days ago, our church staff had a staff development day. We took a tour of downtown Houston, we ate lunch together. We walked through Discovery Green, and then Annunciation Catholic [...]
Scripture of the Week: “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” – 1 Peter 3:15 Hello Church Family! I heard a great story today. One of our church members was working on our prayer garden out on Main Street, when a [...]
Scripture of the Week: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1:5 Hello, Thank you to everyone who attended the State of the Church or has watched it online. At the end of the meeting, we asked folks to let us know if there was a certain [...]
Scripture of the Week: "My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth." - Psalm 121:2 Hello, There is an optimism that comes from being a Christian. After all, we believe that resurrection follows death, that God brings beauty from ashes, and that God is waymaker who can do the impossible! However, [...]
Hello, I came across the wackiest Scripture this week. Ezekiel isn't the easiest book of the Bible, pretty doom and gloom sometimes. And in chapter 9, it says that in a vision, Ezekiel hears God tell an angel to go throughout the city of Jerusalem, and mark the foreheads of all the people in the [...]
Hello, Image On Monday evening, a few of us went to a worship night and prayer gathering here in downtown called Urban Hymnal. It was on a Monday night. Folks had to pay $10 for parking. And there were over 200 young people from all over the city gathered to worship. There were no chairs, [...]
Hello, Please join me in lifting a prayer for Iglesia Generaciones, which begins its weekly worship services at our West Campus this Sunday. Image Yesterday morning I was thinking about that verse from Psalm 23, "Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me." (Psalm 23:4b). The rod was used for protection, it was a weapon [...]
On Monday, I attended an event for area clergy at the Holocaust Museum. We were talking about the voices for human rights in our city, and the challenges of civil discourse in the age of social media. The new executive director spoke of Abraham, recognized as the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and shared [...]
