Building a community

Building a community

During the month of September, in worship, we had a focus on missions. Throughout the month, we engaged the topic of missions because reaching out is the heart of the Gospel. God reached out to you when you had no idea who or what love was. God reached out to you and...
Love FC. Love the World.

Love FC. Love the World.

The World. It isn’t just a globe that you had in your 3rd grade classroom. The World is a concept in Christianity of the people that are unchurched. Surely, you’ve heard in a sermon words disparaging The World. “Those people out there need such and such because...
Church on a Mission

Church on a Mission

When you read this, you will do so likely from the ease of a comfy chair, with ready access to clean water, with a car in the driveway, electricity powering through your outlets, and AC pumping into the steamy Virginia August. It’s all grace that you were born into...
Yearning to be seen

Yearning to be seen

Earlier this spring, while hustling from thing to thing, I was stopped in my tracks.  When you’re going a million miles an hour, slamming on the brakes is a bit like trying to stop a train – something impressive has stand in the way of the locomotive...