A Partisan Church: The Effect of Politics on the Gospel of Grace

September 8, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

We can no longer escape the obvious fact that the world has changed. And that it has not been for the better.

Calm Down and Shut Up, Listen and Live.

September 2, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

Stressed, depressed, busy, angry, anxious, tired. I bet you identify with one or all of those, or have gone in and out of them for the last 6 months. I have. And in the last month God has clearly spoken similar words to my soul as the brother of Jesus wrote in James 1:19-27…except this […]

Confession & Prayer: Why we don’t experience healing from our sins

August 24, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Growing up in a Protestant tradition I’ve noticed that we don’t have much of a concept of why confession matters and to whom we are called to confess.

The Gospel & Race: A Conversation

June 11, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Pastor Victor Scott, Executive Pastor of Ambassadors of Christ Ministries, and Pastor Drew Anderson, Lead Pastor of Sumter Chapel, will have an important conversation. They will focus on issues surrounding the Gospel and Race. What is the Church’s role in addressing issues of race and injustice? How do we declare the Gospel and stand with […]

A Definition of Spiritual Injuries, Updated and Expanded

June 1, 2020.Reading time 23 minutes.

We continue see those failures and injustices that we should have “learned” to overcome by now. The deeper problem is that we cannot learn out way out of spiritual trauma. We must be healed from it first!

An Office of Lament in a Time of Social Strife

May 31, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

UPDATED: The video has been included for those who would like to be guided through the resource below. The following office is adapted from A Book of Prayer and Order (2020). It is designed to help us pray intentionally in times of social strife and unrest. As we confess sin and plead with our Heavenly […]