With Ash Wednesday marking the beginning of Lent, Worship Pastor Drew Causey shares 5 new songs for your congregation to consider using during this Season of Lent. Drew highlights songs by the Robbie Seay Band, Leigh Nash, and more.
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There are several common things we do that can add up to make a big negative impact on our lives. Asbury Seminary’s Vice President of Community Formation shares 9 things that you have probably done, that you should watch out for.
Some people would look at the frail older woman’s life and say that she has much to grumble about and little to look forward to. But Inez sees it differently. In fact, she would agree with a spunky 86 year-old woman who once told me that she was frustrated with longtime friends who spent their days sitting around their apartments in their robes watching soap operas. The 86 year-old reprimanded her friends, saying, “You’re dead. You’re just not buried.”
The Saturday (evening) Post is a weekly column by J.D. Walt, Seedbed’s Sower in Chief. This week he writes about Whitney Houston and the failure of humanity in the wake of celebrity. “We admire our memory of her great vocal feats but for the most part, she was already dead to us. In the end, she was more like us than we wanted her to be and less god-like than we could tolerate.”
An Asbury Seminary staff member shares how her eHarmony experience ended happily ever after. On this Valentine’s day, see how online dating ended up in marriage for Carolyn Clayton.
In this week’s Saturday Post, J.D. Walt explores the connections between the science of neuroplasticity and the Son of God in the work of human transformation.
The Monday morning Coffee Break brings you several Seedbed curated links of interest this morning, ranging from Ben Witherington III response to John Piper claims to a compilation of social media policies for ministries. Check it out.
I want to be married. And yet, I’m still single. Thinking God might need a more active role from me, I decided to join the online dating scene through eHarmony. It was a three-month adventure, for sure, but not one I care to repeat. Everyone I never wanted to meet, I met via online dating.
The very first match I received was an exceptionally attractive man, whose name shall remain anonymous. I’ll simply refer to him as The Camel. (Watch out – he spits.)
We talked on the phone twice, and then agreed to meet in a public place. Sure I thought he talked a lot, but I believed in grace and wrote it off as nervousness. Before we met, he asked that no matter what, we keep the date to two hours. That sounded like a reasonable boundary, so I agreed.
Then, I met The Camel in person.
Bless his heart, he talked […]
Covenant Church stands out by equipping and sending laity to connect people with Christ in their own passions and communities. “(Evangelism) happens by intentionally creating relationships with people who share a common interest,” said Pastor of Congregational Ministries Jay Buckingham. “Our groups ministry allows leaders to build these relationships, and in the process, help group members move one step closer to Christ.”
We encourage our members to lead semester-long groups centered on their passions. We believe those passions are given to them by the Lord and that He can take a person’s passion (motorcycle riding, sewing, baking, etc.) and use it to connect people to Himself and to the body of Christ. Most small groups systems are content driven from the top down. This system is relationship driven from the bottom up.
One of my favorite stories about group discipleship begins with a husband and wife. The wife has been a committed […]
J.D. Walt, Seedbed’s Sower-in-Chief, writes “The Saturday (evening) Post” weekly. This week he continues his observations on David Rock’s book, “Your Brain at Work: Strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus and working smarter all day long,” and the importance of the brain for Christian discipleship.
Timothy C. Tennent, a Seedbed Sponsored Blogger, weighs in on the issues surrounding National Healthcare, universal access to contraceptives and the Roman Catholic Church.
