On Being Gomer
So whats good about being Gomer? That's my question for us. What's good about being the wayward bride? ...
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February 24, 2022 by Justin Edgar
"We fail to remember that God is as the Psalmist describes: an abundant fountain, a river of delights, a full house, a radiant light. The Psalmist knows God never operates out of scarcity. Where we must begin with Deeper is recognizing the ever flowing depths of the fountain of God. He is living water, because it is always abundant and always flowing. Scarcity mindset keeps us from going deeper, because we are afraid the safety net either isn’t there or doesn’t go deep enough. We won’t risk, because we can’t. We can’t possibly risk such things. There might not be anything left. There might not be any left for me. We are all like Goldilocks lamenting lost porridge, broken chairs, and occupied beds. But God always has room and always makes room. He is an overflowing fountain."...
February 17, 2022 by Emily Spare
Abiding through the fall at City Pres meant holding on for dear life to your life preserver ring hoping the other side of the rope is attached to the rescue boat, continually clinging, continually waiting. But abiding in the new year at City Pres is what I think we’re being called into: “Deeper.” ...
December 22, 2016 by Justin Edgar | Category: Gospel | Tags: Adultery, Justification, redemption, Sin, love, sacrifice, Covenant Love, Bridegroom
So whats good about being Gomer? That's my question for us. What's good about being the wayward bride? ...
Keep ReadingDecember 16, 2016 by Ellyn Yoon | Category: Gospel | Tags: gospel, justice, Mercy, Life, Compassion
That God would give us hearts desiring to see justice "roll down like waters" so that bearing the name of Christ will be much more than an adjective in our lives. ...
Keep ReadingDecember 15, 2016 by Justin Edgar | Category: Gospel | Tags: prayer, justice, service, Mercy, Life, Compassion, Action
If we get nothing else from Amos, we should get some holy discomfort....
Keep ReadingDecember 8, 2016 by Emily Leslie | Category: Gospel | Tags: anger, power, justice, trust, faith, God, Christ, Refuge, Strength, Reliance, Wrath
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver, "Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good."...
Keep ReadingDecember 7, 2016 by Justin Edgar | Category: Gospel | Tags: advent, christmas, Jesus, Christ, Reflection, Come
Jesus sings us into a new mode of existence. Jesus sings the nations into submission. Jesus sings hearts into love. Jesus is Christmas in the room. The hope of Advent and the hope of Christmas is that Jesus Christ is in the room…...
Keep ReadingDecember 2, 2016 by Justin Edgar | Category: Gospel | Tags: advent, waiting, christmas, rest, Devotional, Anticipation, Family Devo, Pause, Breathe
The arrival of Jesus means that we will sigh no more. We will have in the words of Marcus Mumford, a love that will not betray, dismay or enslave us, a love that will set us free and make us who we were meant to be. Advent is having this love, waiting for this love, hoping for this love, banking on this love. So, we pause, we read, we pray, we remember, and we cry Come, Lo...
Keep ReadingDecember 1, 2016 by Kaytee Cobb | Category: Gospel | Tags: redemption, Outreach, grace, ministry, love, advent, Jonah, Minor Prophets
As we open this Advent season and enter into the waiting and the hope, we remember Jonah. We remember that God came down to co-inhabit with us. We remember that He lowers himself in order to extend grace to every one of us, even those that we might rather see burn. We remember that his message of grace is bigger than our desire to share it. We remember that his grace follo...
Keep ReadingNovember 22, 2016 by Emily Leslie | Category: Gospel | Tags: Listening, Differences, Church, Beliefs, relationships, Unity, One, Empathy
There is not any other distinction or any other belief system that can make us one, but the spirit of God that we share makes us one. So we hold on to our distinctions, and we regard each other as children of God, made in his image, and we listen empathically (as even Rogers identified as crucial for relationships!) from a position of peace and gentleness, full of mercy, i...
Keep ReadingNovember 18, 2016 by Josh Spare | Category: Gospel | Tags: Man, social media, technology, God's glory, culture
Leave it to sinful man to conflate their good, God-given capability for developing technology and for building wonderful things with their own ego-driven self-aggrandizement....
Keep ReadingNovember 16, 2016 by Justin Edgar | Category: Gospel
In the next two weeks we will be starting a new series for Advent and Christmastime called: The Song that God Sings: Minor Key Melodies from the Minor Prophets. Where is God? This question reverberates in the prayers of the doubter, the skeptic, the atheist, the agnostic...and in the hearts of God's people alike. We see the brokenness surrounding our lives and our very own...
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