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Here is week 2 of our series on Rest titled “Soul Rest.” https://vimeo.com/113393988 Read more
Here is week 2 of our series on Rest titled “Soul Rest.” https://vimeo.com/113393988 Read more
“Kevin” comes once or twice a month to church. Always nice and affable, a little on the stoic side. Doesn’t say much. Kevin first started coming with a family member months ago (this family member told me that it was a BIG deal that Kevin was back in church). Years of wild living. Years of mistakes. Years of running. But now he’s been coming to Mt Vernon. Every once in awhile Kevin will come up to me after the service and say a few kind... Read more
Culture is always convinced that it knows best at the time. This quick walk through medical history reminds us why it’s okay to be skeptical of culture. https://vimeo.com/113415387 Read more
Here is the first sermon in our current series on Rest. Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/113329620 Read more
Sorry this is late in the day! Have a great weekend! What Not to Say to Parents of Adopted Children – Robin and I have gotten a few of these comments! 5 Reasons Why There Are No Millennials In Your Church – Great words! Difficult for churches to hear, but absolutely true. Six Ways to Experience the Presence of the Spirit – Great words of practical wisdom! Top Ten Ways Churches Drive Away First-time Guests – All churches need to... Read more
Hope is the most valuable commodity in the world today. If you have hope, you can endure the greatest trial, walk through the deepest valley, hold on in the depths of despair. If you take away hope you’re finished, doomed to wander aimlessly through the arid wasteland that life can sometimes be. Hope is the most valuable commodity in the world today. The driving vision of Mt Vernon is creating contagious communities of hope. Our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and... Read more
The battlecry of Mt Vernon Church is creating contagious communities of hope. Over the past two days we’ve looked at what it means to create and what it means to live in community. Today we’re going to talk about what it means to be contagious. The definition of contagious is: (of an emotion, feeling, or attitude) likely to spread to and affect others. That should be an obvious adjective for the church, but many times it’s not. Growing up I was a... Read more
The unifying vision of Mt Vernon Church is creating contagious communities of hope. Yesterday I talked about what it means to create. Today I want to talk about community. Culture today is overwhelmed with an epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The digital revolution of the past two decades was intended to bring people together in new and exciting ways. Email, Instant Messenger, Text Messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. In one sense, we are more connected than ever before. And yet, technological connectivity... Read more
The unifying vision of Mt Vernon Church is creating contagious communities of hope. Over the next week or so I want to flesh out that vision so that more can grab onto it. The very first word is “creating.” Creating is about intentionality. It’s about us recognizing that our world is broken and sin-infested. Left on it’s own, it’s doomed to despair and destruction. People are walking around in darkness, in ignorance, in hopelessness. As followers of Jesus, we have the... Read more
Have a great Thanksgiving week! I’m taking the week off from blogging. See you next Monday! Read more
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