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Sherri and I are so thankful for each one of you. That’s not just a blanket statement made blindly to a mass email. As I scan through our distro list this morning, I see each of your names. As I do, it brings so much joy to my heart as I contemplate who you are and what you mean to us. We love each of you genuinely and are so grateful to be able to serve with you in the Body of Christ here at Mt. Hope. I’ll tell you more in a tad shorter Deeper Thoughts below as I imagine your Thanksgiving weekend is a busy one… But first… just a few quick reminders: · NEXT Sunday evening, December 8, 5:00 p.m. Our annual Christmas Pageant and All-Church Christmas Party: Our kids and middle schoolers tell the story of Christmas in music and drama. Then, we gather for a festive potluck dinner and fellowship. The pageant program begins at 5:00, dinner around 5:45. Click here to sign up for what you can bring! · Ladies: Join us for a Christmas Cookie Exchange December 14 from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Come dressed in your Christmas attire and enjoy some fun, fellowship, and delicious cookies! Click here to RSVP! · Mark your calendar for two more prayer vigils as we seek God for the future of our church: A 12-hour prayer vigil throughout the day on Saturday, December 14 and another 24-hour prayer vigil and worship night sometime mid-January. We’ll have more details for you next week! · Please consider joining us for prayer every week—Sundays, 9:15 a.m. for our 25-minute weekly prayer meeting in the sanctuary. · Don’t forget “The Daily Six”, our 6-minute video released every Monday through Thursday as we study through the Book of Acts together. Click here to sign up for daily reminder emails—or you can just find the videos on our YouTube channel each morning. OK…that’s it today for you email skimmers and those who prefer anonymity over connectivity. BUT… Some Deeper Thoughts… Something we love about Mt. Hope: We are not an anonymous church. Sherri and I know just about every single one of you on this Friday email list. We know more about some of you--your family, your interests, your challenges, your joys—and we know a little less about others. But whatever our level of relationship, you matter to us. (BTW… if you’re one of those we know a little less about, let’s fix that… let’s hang out!!) You matter to us just because you are you. And that mattering is all the more significant because you matter to Jesus. We love Jesus, and his love over you inspires us to lean into loving you in more than just a simplistic or generic way. The value he has poured out over you makes you of immense value to us. His love is strong. So strong that he has collided with our worlds. You and I have a wide range of realities in our individual worlds that are complicated, demanding, challenging, and complex. Family, relationships--or loneliness—children, work, finances, responsibilities, possessions, homes, pets, health… the list goes on and on. Those complexities demand our attention and effort, and as a result, Jesus is often an afterthought in the back of our minds as we push and push through these daily responsibilities. But whether we perceive it or not, Jesus is constantly butting in. He is colliding with these matters because you matter. This is what we call “the incarnation.” It is what we celebrate during the Advent season that begins this Sunday—the four weeks we uniquely contemplate Jesus coming in the flesh to meet us in our circumstances, to collide with our worlds. “Incarnation” comes from the Latin phrase, in carne’, meaning, “with meat.” It is God with “meat on his bones.” God come in the flesh. God taking the form of a servant, humbling himself to be found in the fashion of a man, going all the way to death on the cross for you and me. God comes in the flesh to collide with our world. (See Philippians 2:6-11). This Sunday as we kick off Advent season, we will explore the link between Jesus’ colliding incarnation and our study of “The Normal Christian Life.” As we talked about last Sunday, we have a calling from God to be incarnational with each other. We’ve been wired up for it--created for it—and when we do this, we become Jesus’ hands and feet. We become the incarnation of the incarnate. We become “God with meat on his bones” for everyone we know. This is why you matter to us. It is what we have been created to do. I hope you’ll join me and Sherri this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in-person if you can, or online livestream if you’re away with family. We will enjoy sitting back and letting our beloved Pastor Will Cravens put some very practical meat on the bones of understanding how we live incarnate with the incarnate—how we let Jesus collide with every person that is a part of our complicated world. Much love to you all… can’t wait to celebrate you and Jesus this Sunday!! Chris Eads Mt. Hope Pastor Friend
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We ran out of time last Sunday, so I never got to Jesus’ hangnail and how we can avoid being one. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to click here to check out last week’s Friday email. I’ll not repeat myself today, but I will tell you more about this Sunday’s teaching in Deeper Thoughts below… But first… a TON of great stuff you need to know about… · LADIES: Join us for our “Friendsgiving Breakfast”—potluck, fellowship, games, and fun as we celebrate God’s blessings--TOMORROW, Saturday, November 23, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Click here for info and to RSVP! (And mark your calendar for December 14 for a ladies’ cookie exchange!) · NEXT UP: Our annual Christmas Pageant and All-Church Christmas Party – Sunday evening, December 8, 5:00 p.m. We will celebrate Christmas as our kids and middle schoolers tell the story of Christmas in music and drama. Then, we’ll gather for a festive potluck dinner and fellowship. The pageant program begins at 5:00, dinner around 5:45. Click here to sign up for what you can bring! · Do you want to help others feel welcome at Mt. Hope? Join us for an informational meeting THIS Sunday, November 24 after church. Click here to RSVP so we can feed you lunch! · Are you interested in the deep history of Mt. Hope? Join us for the kick-off of a new team that will explore our church’s history, to include restoring and improving the graveyard. THIS Sunday evening, November 24 at 5:00 p.m. Light dinner included. Click here to RSVP! · Mark your calendar for two more prayer vigils as we seek God for the future of our church: A 12-hour prayer vigil throughout the day on Saturday, December 14 and another 24-hour prayer vigil and worship night sometime mid-January. · Please consider joining us for prayer every week—Sundays, 9:15 a.m. for our 25-minute weekly prayer meeting in the sanctuary. · Don’t forget “The Daily Six”, our 6-minute video released every Monday through Thursday as we study through the Book of Acts together. Click here to sign up for daily reminder emails—or you can just find the videos on our YouTube channel each morning. OK…that’s it today for you email skimmers and those who prefer to tune out on matters of Jesus’ health. BUT… Some Deeper Thoughts… If you missed last Sunday’s teaching, you might want to catch up by clicking here. Or brush up on it if you were around, as we’re going to keep going into “Part 2” of our teaching. This is all about discovering the fullness of who you are. It’s about living your best self. It’s about being more fulfilled than you could ever imagine. It’s about a life of real abundance and joy because you have absolute clarity on your identity and why you exist. And it’s about not giving Jesus a hangnail. If we are able to discern how God has uniquely and individually crafted us for a very specific purpose, it would stand to reason that stepping into that purpose with our whole life and our whole focus would be incredibly life-giving. Let me say it another way, and maybe with a little finer point. We spend enormous amounts of energy pursuing our best life. We want to feel great about who we are and what we do. The problem is that many of us have a mistaken view of what our best life really is. Our real best life isn’t about wealth, or social status, or perfect relationships, or achievement, or even stability and security. Our real best life is living exactly who we are. Who we were made to be. What we were designed to contribute. When we fail to live like this, Jesus gets a hangnail. I received a random text message this morning from an old friend that I haven’t seen or talked to in over a dozen years. When I last saw him, we were both spiraling into very tough seasons in each of our lives--trainwrecks, I would call them—that were uncannily similar to each other. It is interesting that this old friend started his text by saying, “the Holy Spirit just put you on my heart today.” He then went on to fill me in that he is living in another state “living my best life now.” He’s right. I’ve seen his occasional posts on Facebook that demonstrate to me that he is living in the center of his God-created design. He is using his spiritual gifts with precision. He is making an impact in the lives of the people God has surrounded him with. And most importantly, it seems to me from his storylines that he has settled his identity, healed from chaos and pain, and simplified his life into one primary goal: living exactly as God has made him. When we function in life exactly as God has designed us, it is easy, it is fun, it is fulfilling, it is meaningful. When we fail to function as God has designed, the whole body of Jesus suffers. Just like a tiny little hangnail can change our mood and distract our entire body, so are we to Jesus when we’re not living like we should. Do a little advance reading before Sunday: Soak in all of 1 Corinthians 12. See if you can recognize where you are in this chapter. What has God created you for? How has He equipped you, and for what purpose? How well are you fulfilling that design? Let’s keep moving, let’s keep studying. This will be a fun and encouraging Sunday for sure. Hope to see you there… 10:00 a.m. in-person (always best…especially this week as we partake of the Lord’s Supper together), or online livestream if you’re out of town or ill! Much love to you all… Chris Eads Mt. Hope Pastor Friend Hey Friends…
Random and awkward question: Have you been thinking about your big toe all day today? No? It’s not been top of mind? Huh. But I bet if it was in serious pain right now, it would be controlling your every thought. What does this have to do with Jesus and hangnails? And why do I need to care? I’ll tell you more in Deeper Thoughts below… But first… there’s a lot of new stuff for you to know… · We will share an update on the direction of our church and our facility expansion THIS Sunday morning. Be sure to attend or catch it online. · Seeking God in fervent prayer is the most important aspect of who we are: o Thank you to all who participated last weekend in our 24-hour prayer vigil and worship night. The movement of the Holy Spirit was palpable. We’ll share stories of all God was doing over the next couple of weeks. o Please consider joining us for prayer every week—Sundays, 9:15 a.m. for our 25-minute weekly prayer meeting in the sanctuary. o We have two more prayer vigils coming: A 12-hour prayer vigil throughout the day on Saturday, December 14 and another 24-hour prayer vigil and worship night sometime mid-January. o Put your prayer needs on the prayer wall in the sanctuary! Let’s actively trust the Lord for the things going on in our lives by presenting them to the Body of Christ for prayer and spiritual victory… c’mon, let’s be honest… if we are truly handing our stuff over to God in communal prayer, there should be 120 new prayer cards every week at Mt. Hope!!! · LADIES: Join us for our “Friendsgiving Breakfast”—potluck, fellowship, games, and fun as we celebrate our many blessings--Saturday, November 23, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Click here for more info and to RSVP! (And mark your calendar for December 14 for a ladies’ cookie exchange! More info to come!) · Christmas!! Mark your calendars for Sunday evening, December 8 for our annual Kids Connect Christmas Pageant and All-Church Christmas Party. More details to come! · New teams are forming! If you’d like to help make people feel uniquely welcome at Mt. Hope, click here to RSVP for an informational meeting NEXT Sunday, November 24 after church; If you’d like to dig deep into our church’s history and help us restore and improve the graveyard, click here to RSVP for a kick-off meeting NEXT Sunday evening, November 24 at 5:00 p.m. · Don’t forget “The Daily Six”, our 6-minute video released every Monday through Thursday as we study through the Book of Acts together. Click here to sign up for daily reminder emails—or you can just find the videos on our YouTube channel each morning. OK…that’s it today for you email skimmers and those who have onuxophobia. BUT… Some Deeper Thoughts… My apologies to you onuxophobia sufferers—those with a phobia of toenails. It’s an actual thing, albeit probably not very prolific. But you know what is also a thing? And this one is ubiquitous for sure. Hangnails. Hopefully they don’t happen too often for you, but we’ve all had them. They are not deadly, but they sure are annoying, are they not? In fact, when you have one, it can occupy a tremendous amount of your attention and concern. The rest of your body can be in fantastic shape. But have a hangnail or an ingrown toenail, and it will put the entire system into high alert and focus. No, I am not suffering from the delirium of a toe infection as you probably think right about now. “Chris, how in the world is this disgusting conversation happening in the first place, and more importantly, what does this have to do with me and Jesus Christ?” I’m glad you asked. We need to be sure we don’t give Jesus a hangnail. Huh? Yep. Jesus is in perfect shape. He always has been. But there are tiny, seemingly unimportant parts of his body—like a toenail—that if they are not working properly, his whole body is going to be out of whack. You might be one of those tiny little parts. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the scripture: “Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27). So, let's set the level set on this: Jesus has a body, and you are part of it. Of course, it’s not a physical, three-dimensional, 165-pounds, 5’9” anthropoid. But it is a physical reality made up of all the living believers in Jesus. You cannot say you’re not a part of it: “Now the body is not made up of one part but many. If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body” (1 Corinthians 12:14-15... oh, and keep reading on through verse 25… ). Here is where Jesus’ hangnails become relevant: “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it” (1 Corinthians 12:26). The Eads Translation, coming soon to a bookstore near you: “If Jesus has a hangnail, every part of his body will suffer. Don’t be Jesus’ hangnail.” Bottom line: Jesus Christ came to bring the life of God to every person on the planet. To achieve this, there was much he alone had to do in his 3-D, 165-pounds, 5’ 9’’ physical body during those 30+ years on earth, not the least of which was to die on a Roman cross for our sins and then conquer the grave and rise again. But then, there is more. To bring the life of God to every person on the planet, he presently needs a physical connection point--a body—in every corner of the planet to be his hands, and feet, and voice, and witness. Enter you and me. Tiny, seemingly insignificant you and me. Each one of us is a key part to the physical body of Christ in this world today. If we do not do our part, Jesus’ whole body will suffer. Just like that pain in your big toe will put your whole healthy 5-foot-plus self into a painful funk, if we fail to function as God designed us, all of Jesus suffers. Let’s not be the hangnail in the body of Jesus. Let’s step up to discovering which part of the body we are and what we are supposed to do. Are you unclear on what part you play? That’s normal. So, let’s peel back another layer of scriptures this Sunday and figure it out. “The Normal Christian Life.” It’s “not weird, not weak, not wandering.” We have a calling, we have a part to play… and best of all, we have the power of the Holy Spirit who equips us for the work. Shall we step up? Let’s learn to function exactly as designed. Can’t wait to unpack this with you on Sunday!! Much love to all… Chris Eads Mt. Hope Pastor Friend Hey Friends…
Have you infected anyone recently? Being just a couple of years out from a deadly global pandemic, we all might get a little twitchy around terms such as viral, infectious, or contagious. But not everything viral or contagious is negative. In fact, if you share this infection with others, it may be the most life-giving, restorative, and healthy situation you could ever help create. I’ll tell you more in Deeper Thoughts below… But first… a MASSIVE Holy Spirit weekend is in store for us… · Our 24-hour prayer vigil starts TOMORROW at 5:00 p.m. thru Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Click here to grab one or more 30-minute slots to cover our church in bold prayer. · Here’s how it works: o Click here to download a prayer guide. Let’s pray scripture in bold faith over a series of prayer needs that you’ll see in the guide. o Pray at home, or at the church, or anywhere. You may want to come pray around the church campus, particularly as we seek God for His leadership and provision over our facility expansion needs. o We will have one or two people at the church throughout the 24-hour period—including the middle of the night. Gordon Albert and several of the Elders will be taking shifts at the facility throughout the 24 hours. Come pray with us! The sanctuary will be open! o Let us know you’re on the prayer vigil team so we can agree with you in prayer. There is a power in unity and praying with together—even if at a distance (see Matthew 18:19-20). Click here to RSVP! · Then, join us as we wrap up with a mighty prayer meeting and worship night, THIS Sunday, November 10 at 5:00 p.m. · AND… during the prayer vigil, we also have an exciting Sunday Morning Worship service planned for 10:00 a.m. We’ll be baptizing three ladies and celebrating our very contagious Jesus. More on this in Deeper Thoughts below. · AND… our weekly Sunday morning prayer meeting at 9:15 a.m. would be a perfect time to jump in on the prayer vigil. Join us in the sanctuary! · Don’t forget “The Daily Six”, our 6-minute video released every Monday through Thursday as we study through the Book of Acts together. Click here to sign up for daily reminder emails—or you can just find the videos on our YouTube channel each morning. · LADIES: Join us for our “Friendsgiving Breakfast”—food, fellowship, games, and fun as we celebrate our many blessings--Saturday, November 23, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Click here for more info and to RSVP! OK…that’s it today for you email skimmers and those who are Jesus germaphobes. BUT… Some Deeper Thoughts… Sherri and I still laugh about something we saw early in the coronavirus pandemic. Now, don’t get me wrong. There was nothing funny about that dreadful crisis. Many of us lost friends and loved ones, and the global suffering was great. I lost a dear friend from my aviation days to the disease. But do you remember some of the things we did in our early panic that now in hindsight seem a little silly? One that still makes me giggle is when we finally got the courage to venture outside a couple of weeks into the emergency. It was early springtime, so going down to the C&O Canal National Park near our home and walking the trail in the warm sunshine was quite stress relieving. As we passed others who were doing the same on the 10-foot-wide manicured trail, we all would step way off the path and walk through the brush to avoid each other. OK, that makes sense—a mere 6 feet of social distance was still a little nerve-wracking with this virus we did not yet understand. But here’s the silliness: No one we passed would make any eye contact whatsoever. It’s as if just looking at us was contagious. And it is, you know. Just not with coronavirus. Looking is contagious when it comes to Jesus. Paul and Silas had been beaten within an inch of their lives. The context was pure injustice: Owners of a poor demonically possessed slave girl lost their moneymaker when Paul delivered her from demonism in the power and the name of Jesus. Her spiritual freedom meant her evil owner’s loss of unjust revenue. Enraged, they sought the assistance of the corrupt magistrate who had Paul and Silas stripped, beaten, and severely flogged—all without a trial or actual legal justification. You can read all the gory details in Acts 16:16-24. Flogging is bad enough: thirty-nine lashes with a multi-stranded whip enmeshed with broken glass, bone chips, and nails to inflict maximum damage to the flesh. What is differentiated by “severely flogged” is unknown. It is unquestionable that they were in a lot of pain. Add insult to injury, their feet were fastened in the stocks—another tremendous discomfort that prevented any relaxation of their wounded muscles. Torture is designed—in part—to infect anyone who sees it with paralyzing fear. This is how tyrants have ruled the masses throughout human history. No one wants to experience what they are watching, so they fall into lock-step obedience to the tyrant. The torture of Paul and Silas had the exact opposite effect. When their fellow prisoners saw Paul and Silas worshipping in their terribly injured state, they were captivated. Just looking at them, the inmates unanimously chose Jesus over escape from prison. What they saw were not wounded men. They saw Jesus. Acts 16:25-34 tells of an overnight earthquake that collapsed the prison walls and broke off the prisoners’ chains. This was a divinely timed jail break for any who so desired. Imprisoned men facing terrible punishment don’t often pass up a chance to flee. But the contagion of Paul and Silas’ worship was so infectious that everyone stayed put. No one left. Not one. The jailer was amazed. Assuming he had lost all his prisoners--which in and of itself was a capital crime for a Roman prison warden—he became instantly suicidal. When Paul reassured him that all were still there, rapt in attention at the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the warden became infected too. Before the sun rose that morning, he and his entire household had given themselves to Jesus and been baptized. Friends, how contagious is your Jesus? When people look at your life and how you manage your circumstances and stress, do they see something so supernatural that it drops them to their knees in repentance? When they see the love you have for Jesus and how deeply you cherish him, are they rapt with interest in understanding who Jesus is? Are they drawn to stay right by your side until they can gain this worthy savior for themselves? This Sunday morning, we are going to tell joyful stories of the contagion of Jesus. Three ladies in our church will be confessing their faith through the sacred ritual of baptism. We’ll help them tell their stories of how they caught Jesus—some, in part, through the contagion of you people of Mt. Hope Church. I trust you’ll come hungry to celebrate the wonder and splendor of a Messiah so worthy that those who simply look at us might find him. In the meantime, will you click here to join us in bold prayer throughout Saturday and Sunday? Much love to all… gonna be a great weekend at Mt. Hope!! Chris Eads Mt. Hope Pastor Friend Hey Friends…
I bet you’re ready for this coming week to be over. The anticipation and anxiety in our society is palpable as we face a sharply divided and anger-laden election this Tuesday. Even after Tuesday, clarity on the outcome may be painfully uncertain. My hope is that you have already moved well beyond anxiety and that you are truly resting in the Lord. But I need to share with you a very powerful word from God that He has given to me, for us, for Tuesday. I’ll tell you more in Deeper Thoughts below… But first… before you react to Tuesday… · Will you sign up to seek God’s power and direction together with us as we search out His will for Mt. Hope’s future? Click here to grab one or more 30-minute slots during our 24-hour prayer vigil NEXT Saturday / Sunday, November 9 – November 10 to cover our church in bold prayer. We’ll provide guided ideas on what and how to pray. · Then, don’t miss a mighty prayer meeting and worship night, NEXT Sunday, November 10 at 5:00 p.m. · Don’t forget “The Daily Six”, our 6-minute video released every Monday through Thursday as we study through the Book of Acts together. Click here to sign up for daily reminder emails—or you can just find the videos on our YouTube channel each morning. · Pray today and tomorrow for your Mt. Hope Elder Team as we are away on a three-day strategy and prayer retreat (Thursday - Saturday). We will be praying over each and every one of you by name, seeking God’s wisdom for your needs and growth in Jesus. We’ll be listening to God and crafting some important next steps for our ministries and our church family. We can’t wait to share with you what God shares with us! · Be sure to turn your clocks back Saturday night. You get an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Savings Time ends!! OR… don’t set your clocks back and just accidentally show up early and find yourself in our weekly prayer meeting Sunday morning, 9:15 a.m. in the sanctuary! OK…that’s it today for you email skimmers and those who haven’t heard what’s happening on Tuesday. BUT… Some Deeper Thoughts… God has revealed a fresh word for you and me. It comes directly from the scriptures. It is encouraging. I am super-excited to share it with you. But I imagine you’re super-weary of discussing anything near this topic. The name calling, negativity, fear, anger, threats… it is all terribly exhausting, don’t you think? I am sensitive to this, and I truly do not want to belabor a subject many of us wish would simply go away. But we possess a tremendously different--and hopeful—angle. In Jesus, we can turn our attention away from anger and towards the joy, peace, wisdom, and unity of the Holy Spirit that is available to us. I trust you’ve heard my heart over and over again that we do not place our hope in political matters. Our hope is not in the kingdom of this world, including this great nation we cherish. Our hope is in the Kingdom of Heaven. Period. But neither should we place our fears in political matters. The Lord God Almighty is the one we should fear, not [insert name of your political nemesis]. Period. And yet, politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle declare with fevered pitch the existential danger to our society that their political opponents represent. For those of us who are politically active and engaged, we might even buy into the possibility that our chosen side is correct—that if the other man/woman wins, there is a real danger to our financial, social, and political wellbeing. But is this how God sees things? Slow down. Are you sure? Something is going to happen on Tuesday. It is likely one of three things: 1) Your preferred candidate wins in an indisputable, clear outcome; 2) The other candidate wins in the same way; 3) Neither candidate is a clear winner, and our nation drags on into a protracted debate--and perhaps even civil unrest—about who has truly been selected. Only one of those options will offer you an easy out from anxiety. But if that occurs, your friends and loved ones who vote the opposite will not be so anxiety-free. Several weeks ago, the Lord led me to stumble across a passage in the Old Testament that has a perfectly precise and immediate parallel to our situation. Oh, friends… you’ve got to read this passage and stand in it as we process whatever emotions we experience Tuesday night and the days following! Most importantly, this text of scripture needs to redirect and reframe how we see Tuesday’s outcome, how we interpret its meaning and impact to us, and how we choose to feel about whatever is ahead of us. Have I mentioned that I cannot wait to share this with you? I’m not going to tell you the text of scripture today. You need to come out on Sunday and let’s study it together. Come in-person… do not make this a “I’ll stay at home and watch the service online” weekend (unless, of course, you’re out of town or sick in bed… then join us online!!). Here’s why “in-person” is super-important this week: We need the full experience of “together” with one another and with the Holy Spirit to properly center our response. This is not merely an intellectual exercise to hear a good teaching from Pastor Chris. That you can get on the internet. But we need the full experience of the Body of Christ to properly frame our worldview… in togetherness (see Acts 2:42-47). And that only happens in-person. I sat Wednesday night with our worship team as they prepared. It was powerful. The Holy Spirit has led them to craft a very moving and encouraging worship experience for us. You will meet with God. Our Elders will be coming home from a three-day prayer and planning session filled with the joy of what God has in front of us. They will be eager to share. Our love for one another and the joy of seeing each other will warm our hearts. This will center us. This is the Kingdom of Heaven to which we belong. This is our hope. I’m not going to spill the beans on the scripture God has revealed so that we can all experience it together this Sunday. (For those of you who like to use this Friday email to get your mind prepared in advance, I’ll send you somewhere that’s a little out of the ordinary… to read another blog from a dear friend of mine. My college-era buddy David Drury has had a long and dynamic career leading churches and denominational organizations, mentoring pastors and leaders, and writing compelling wisdom for all believers. This week he published a fantastic study of God’s specific commands for us as we relate to our political adversaries. It is well worth the read… click here.) OK… that’s it for today. Let’s connect on Sunday in-person. God will meet us. We will be encouraged. And we will be centered. I don’t know about you, but a “centered self” will be super-helpful for me this Tuesday night! Much love to all… Chris Eads Mt. Hope Pastor Friend |
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