May 2, 2023
Dear friends, The main area of focus for the Leadership Team of Embry Hills is to cultivate a culture of discipleship. Below you will...
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- Apr 25
April 25, 2023
As the new Leadership Structure and Team are meeting and working for the church, we wanted to give the congregation an update on things...
- Apr 18
April 18, 2023
I once was a part of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership Fellowship Program. It was a really neat program where young clergy from many...
- Apr 11
April 11, 2023
When I was in high school, there was a best-selling pop-Christianity book called, “The Prayer of Jabez.” It was a strange book, and...
- Apr 4
April 4, 2023
Dear friends, One of my favorite Wendell Berry poems is three lines long. It goes: The seed is in the ground. Now may we rest in hope....
- Mar 28
March 28, 2023
One of my favorite movies growing up as a kid was the film by Mel Brooks, Spaceballs. I realized after going to college that I had only...
- Mar 21
March 21, 2023
We are three weeks into our humble journey to the cross. In my own personal life, there haven’t been as many things as humbling as having...
- Mar 14
March 14, 2023
The Ides of March has always held a fascination for me (technically it is tomorrow, but we are in the ballpark). I know it is apocryphal...
- Mar 7
March 7, 2023
My best friend from seminary came in a few weeks ago with his eight-year-old son, who I was meeting for the first time. He was in...
- Feb 28
February 28, 2023
I was doing chapel with the preschool this past week, and I asked them, what is a season? And they all started shouting Summer! Fall!...
- Feb 21
February 21, 2023
Dear friends, Tomorrow begins our Lenten journey. It is 40 days that we observe a fast (abstaining from something) as we approach the...
- Feb 14
February 14, 2023
Today is Valentine’s Day. Or Gal-entine’s day for all of you Parks and Rec fans out there. I’ve even heard of another version called,...
- Feb 7
February 7, 2023
There are a couple of interesting storylines in this year’s super bowl coming up this Sunday. It is the third time in four years the...
- Jan 31
January 31, 2023
I recently got a new wallet. My old wallet was starting to fall apart, and it was time. When I got the new wallet and began to switch...
- Jan 24
January 24, 2023
This Sunday we held our first Leadership Team meeting under the new Simple Accountability Structure we have been working on for over a...
- Jan 17
January 17, 2023
When I was the Chaplain at a college, I came across an organization that stresses that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day should not be a day...
- Jan 10
Janaury 10, 2023
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas season! We are officially out of the Christmas season as the Wise Men finally got to Jesus on...
- Dec 20, 2022
December 20, 2022
I will be taking a break from the weekly devotional newsletter for a few weeks. They will resume after the new year on January 10th. I...
- Dec 13, 2022
December 13, 2022
Dear friends, The day I am writing this is the day of the runoff election for the Georgia Senate. It has been a long, grueling election...
- Dec 6, 2022
December 6, 2022
Dear friends, I know soccer isn’t for everyone, but that is especially true in the United States. You can see evidence of that fact in...
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