Category Archives: Friday Posts

First Year Thoughts, Part 2 After crossing the 1-year checkpoint at Advent as Senior Pastor, I’m taking the space in my Friday morning email to share some thoughts about who we are as a church and what possibilities that we have ahead. If you missed last week’s post, no worries. I also posted it onContinue reading “First Year Thoughts, part 2”

This post is the weekly email I send to our congregation as a regular correspondence from the Senior Pastor’s Office. I just wrapped my first year at Advent. I’ll do a series of posts to share my year-in-review. First Year Thoughts, Part 1 Hello Advent! This past Tuesday was my one-year anniversary as your SeniorContinue reading “Friday Post- First Year Thoughts, part 1”

Here is my Friday email sent to Advent Pres: This year, I’ve been running in a Memphis race series called #runthe901, four races in the city of Memphis from January through March, which culminate in the Germantown ½ marathon on March 11th. If someone is able to finish all four races in the series, theyContinue reading “Friday Post: Crossing the Finish Line”

The post below is the weekly email I send to Advent Pres folks. Check it out! The Big Give John’s gospel tells us that Jesus is God in flesh who made his dwelling among us (John 1:14) or as Eugene Peterson’s The Message puts it, God “moved into the neighborhood.” At its heart, Christianity isContinue reading “The Big Give”

I send a Friday email to our church with a little devotional thought. I thought I’d start placing it here, too On my last day at Peachtree Presbyterian in Atlanta, a fellow pastor on staff, Mark Brewer, gave me an important and challenging task: “Make sure you find a way to routinely weigh members ofContinue reading “Friday Post: Weighing Disciples”