Dear Emmanuel Family,
I wanted to take this opportunity to offer a pastoral note regarding COVID-19. We are in a moment where a lot of information is coming at us quickly. Almost hour by hour we are reading about continued …
Pastoral Notes
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Above is a video of the song that I mentioned in my Good Friday sermon. “On an American Spiritual” by David Holsinger. This arrangement, and the variations on the simple, haunting, and beautiful …
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I came across two quotes in my reading this week that served as really great reminders for me as I was preparing for this past Sunday’s sermon on the Presence of God. They …
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I mentioned this past Sunday, in my sermon, a computer game called “That Dragon, Cancer.” I talked about the creators Ryan and Amy Green and their son Joel. I realized, in talking with …
This past Sunday, the 4th, we began our series on 10 Healthy Missional Markers. Appropriately we began with the Centrality of the Word of God. We looked at familiar words from 2 Timothy 3:10-17. To help us understand and …
As we begin this week of prayer, heading in to a new year, and looking forward to the new things to come C.S. Lewis has some beautiful words for us about prayer…
Master, they say that when I seem
To …
Even the most casual sports fan will remember the “Dwight-mare” that took place in Orlando, FL a few years ago, and how everyone in the world of sports grew tired of all the child-like finger pointing and dramatic …
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In the last part of this mini-series, pastor Keith …
In part two of this mini-series, pastor Keith explores how three of the most basic words in Christianity may soon no longer mean what we’ve always thought and believed.
“Gospel”
Most Christians today (and even a large …
In part one of this mini-series, pastor Keith explores how three of the most basic words in Christianity may soon no longer mean what we’ve always thought and believed.
Words matter. The only reason we use words is because we …