One day each year we forego our usual Sunday plan. We celebrate new life, both earthly and spiritual. We get loud. (This includes whistles, wild cheers and our awesome Woo girls.) We pray and sing and
Remember a couple months ago when we spent a Sunday morning recognizing, honoring and praying for our law enforcement officers?
We shared how, as a church, we are called to seek the welfare and
Recently our family went to Red Rocks Amphitheater to catch the Avett Brothers in concert...
If you’ve never heard the Avett brothers, man, oh man, do they pack a wallop. Their lyrics seem so
Why pitch a fit any old afternoon when you can melt down on a national holiday in a house full relatives and expectations?
Like all roads to holidays-gone-bad, this particular Thanksgiving was
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1
Sometimes I look around at church, see people
But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7 - NRSV)
At Pulpit Rock, we
You know you shouldn’t, but you do it anyway. I am familiar.
Any person who has texted behind the wheel, stalked Instagram like a coveting neighbor, chased that first high, lied/cheated/stolen
I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about joy lately. This is not an accident. Our church just spent five weeks going through Tommy Newberry’s “40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life.” We read the daily
I woke up on the wrong side of my brain this morning.
It became painfully clear when I casually logged into Facebook. I saw happy snaps of some honeymooners that made my 25-year marriage seem tired
We asked you to send us your questions about joy. And many of you did. Thomas addressed some in his sermon, but let's continue the conversation here.
How do you help your children choose
We spend a lot of time talking about community around here. We want everyone to feel connected and cared for. Relationships are pretty much at the very top of our priority list.
That's why we are
It seems every day when I wake up I check Facebook to see if there has been more horrible news in our city ... news of another child who has lost hope and ended their life.
What an awful thing to
“Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God. It is a way of acting, and it is evidence of spiritual maturity.
Joy is not a distant destination at which you arrive; rather, it’s a
Thirty minutes after the “Good Neighbor” series ended, I tried to explain to my husband that the greatest commandment wasn’t for me.
“If I get to know my neighbors, then I just have more people to
We are spending the next 40 days learning as a church family how to live joy-filled lives. As we learn to choose our thoughts, we are teaching ourselves to focus on things that bring us
Once a month, dozens of adults shuffle into the cafeteria of Atlas Prep High School in southern Colorado Springs. We scan the crowd of high school students until we find our match and sit down at the
My family spends a lot of time at our neighborhood pool in the summer. The pool is packed with kids and teens, splashing around on floaty noodles and inner tubes. And as much as I love this time with
"We don’t love our neighbors because we want them to become christians, we love them because we are christians."
–Thomas Thompson
Recently, Colorado Springs experienced record-breaking winds.
Charly and his family attend Pulpit Rock. Here he shares an incredible opportunity for our church body to flourish together by partnering with local Muslim families in welcoming new refugees to our
God cares less about our personal spiritual growth than we think.
Remember when Jonathan told us that? His point wasn't that God doesn't care about our individual spiritual growth. He just cares
In today’s society, most boys never learn how to do away with childish things.
They never learn how to lead someone through a hardship.
They never see how to respond with grace when someone
Last December we decided to end Ecclesia, our Tuesday Night College Program.
This decision was something we felt the Lord leading us to as a church. We have an enormous heart for college aged
(or How We Spend Your Money - Part 3)
I was recently at a conference where the speaker asked: What would someone notice about your church if you couldn’t explain anything to them? If someone
It was December of 2011 and we were preparing, with much anticipation, to get the invitation to go to Ethiopia and to bring our son home. After attending court, both the United States and Ethiopian
We first told you about this back in June. Recently Caitlin Garrett had a chance to see it in action.
This past week I got to see our Pulpit Rock Ask a Moms in action at UCCS. These ladies
I recently saw the movie Arrival.
It tells the story of humanity’s first contact with visitors from another world. The encounter is filled with fear, confusion, and anxiety. Are these visitors
Last week was an extraordinary week in America. There is a lot of fear and anger. In many ways our nation feels more fragmented and divided than it did a week ago. Setting aside political affiliations
We have been in our new sanctuary for a month. Each week we get to enjoy the newness, the beauty, and the deep rest that follows a time of displacement. However, there's so much we don't want to
(or How We Spend Your Money - Part 2)
I was recently reminded of this truth:
You never notice the lightbulbs until they are not working.
I walked into a room in my home with no windows,
As Thomas has been leading us through Ecclesiastes, I have been giving thought to how disruptive discontentment is.
I have found when I allow it to take root, it ends up being all consuming. It may
Join us as we pray this prayer each day until the election.
Lord, one of these two will be our president. So we pray.
Lord, we pray
for the health and safety of Trump and Clinton.
Lord, we
Luke Wrobleski is our Facilities Director. He lead our church through our 365 day auditorium renovation. For the last year, he practically lived at church, putting in literally countless hours to
I’m sitting in my office on Wednesday night at 7 PM and I’m feeling a little emotional.
I’m feeling emotional, because I just walked through both of our buildings. It is AWANA night and tonight is
Many of you have emailed or asked on Facebook about ways to get involved in what is happening in Haiti. As you know Pulpit Rock has a partner on the ground right now, Mission of Hope (MOH).
Mission
Our community experienced a loss this week - a death that touched our church body. One of our students shared her thoughts as she processed the messiness that is this life.
First day back was
Prayer is our communication with God. It may be spoken, written, or simply a thought.
My first introduction to prayer was rote; repeating the same prayers many times over. Often just repeating the
When God rescued the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, he instructed them to tell the stories. They were to build stone memorials so that future generations would ask about them and they could share
Who is my neighbor? How do I love my neighbor?
What does this look like in today’s culture, with the current social agendas and rabid political climate?
Could loving my neighbor be an answer to
Tonight is the Opening Ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics! (Eeeek! Who's excited?!) We wait four years for this.
Guess what? Two of our very own Pulpit Rock family, Larry and Ellen Amundson,
Can you imagine if our government were to reach out to the body of Christ asking for prayer? In our current culture it seems pretty far-fetched, right?
Well, guess what?
They DID.
The El Paso
Since we've been keeping the auditorium doors shut over the last few weeks, I thought you might want to know what's going on in there. The short story is ... a lot has been going on in there! I'm
We talk often about how amazing our kids are at Pulpit Rock. Well check this out...
Amelia's Lemonade Stand
Amelia Jardon is six years old. After hearing about the need for money to finish the
COS I Love You is a play on words. COS is a common abbreviation for Colorado Springs. Pronounced as a word, it also means "because" as in 'Cause I Love You.
I lead a network of pastors in our
I have never put on a uniform which marked me as a target of criticism, hatred, and even violence from those I’ve sworn to protect.
I have never walked around with the skin color that marked me as
What is SOAP?
SOAP is a simple method of studying God's word that allows you to interact with the scripture and understand it on a deeper, more meaningful level. There are four parts to
To the LGBT community, my heart breaks with you. I can only imagine how scared you must feel. Christ grieves with you.
To the Muslim American community, who stand against violence like this, I know
This past year was the inaugural year of Ask a Mom - a unique partnership between Pulpit Rock Church and CRU to love and serve the students at UCCS.
Like the Ask a Mom page on Facebook to stay
Five and a half years ago my whole world changed course - my calling, my priorities, my fears, my dreams. My life as I knew it no longer existed and I was launched headfirst into the unknown. I became
Rest.
What comes to mind for you when you hear that word?
Maybe it’s a word association.
Like rest-stop?
Or bed-rest?
Or rest-room?
But what if you had to picture “rest” all by itself.
Hey Pulpit Rock Church family!
It is with both great enthusiasm and some sadness that I want to share some news with you. After several wonderful years at Pulpit Rock, my wife, Fiona, and I sense
While recovering from the destruction of our auditorium, we have been bending our ears to listen to God. God is speaking to us in our displacement.
I believe God wants to speak to us in 2016
We are in the midst of what some have called “the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.”
One out of every two Syrians has fled for their lives with literally seconds to grab what they could before
We're trying out something new in our Children's Ministry...
Kingdom Kids will be not be meeting on the 5th Sundays to allow you to worship with our entire church body by attending service with
We shared with you last week that in a couple weeks, Jonathan begins a three month sabbatical (from November 16 - February 13.) This will be an extended time of rest, travel and study. We wanted to
Organizational guru Peter Drucker observed that the four most difficult jobs in America are, in no particular order:
President of the United States
University President
Hospital
We talk a lot about serving Colorado Springs and have been sharing stories of how we've been the heart and hands of Christ to our city. We're creating relationships with some great ministries
Brady’s eyes and mischievous look pulled in this “old Grandpa” as the door opened at their home for my first visit with the foster family that our PRC team had been assigned through Fostering
A couple weeks ago we had our annual neighborhood yard sale (we've missed this the last three years because we can never get our act together), this year I was determined to make a large dent in the
One of the great joys I have as your pastor is working with an incredible staff. I believe that the team leading and serving Pulpit Rock is the strongest and most talented staff I have ever worked
It has been a big week in our nation, and I wanted to share my thoughts with you.
I want you to know that first and foremost Pulpit Rock aims to know Christ and him crucified. That means we can all
In my last post, I mentioned that while we don't have a "Worship Pastor," we still have the need for what a Worship Pastor provides.
So what, exactly, are those needs?
They vary by church of course,
I really like going to conferences.
You get to travel (my favorite part), eat some local food in another city (my other favorite part), and learn a lot from tremendous communicators and teachers
We’ve all watched with sorrow as the news about the earthquake in Nepal have scrolled past our news feed. In times like this it is easy to feel powerless and to wonder where God is. I wanted to
A change is coming ... instead of passing the plate each Sunday, we will instead have mounted giving boxes to the welcome stations at each entrance to the auditorium.
There are three reasons for
I have tried to fix my own life
I can not do it on my own
I have tried to control my thoughts, my actions, my speech, my life
Lord have mercy on me
But at every turn I seem to fail
Hosanna, Save
Hi, I'm Nick. I'm the Director of Worship Arts at Pulpit Rock.
In 2013, Pastor Thomas told the congregation that we were moving to a "new model" of worship at Pulpit Rock ... one that did not
[quote]I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author
2 years and $120,000+ later my wife and I are debt free! (Aside from our home.)
Just a couple of days ago I was looking over our budget (something I do all the time) and it looked like we could be
At Pulpit Rock we want to help people journey with God.
That journey begins when we find acceptance with God through Jesus Christ. That journey continues as we choose to believe that what God says
Recently I was sick. Really sick. Like can’t-get-out-of-bed sick. I couldn't do much of anything for myself.
While I was laying there, I was surprised to receive a text message from my 10-year-old
"God of mercy sweet love of mine
I have surrendered to Your design
May this offering stretch across the skies
And these Halleluiahs be multiplied"
Well, Pulpit Rock family, you've done it again
So you may have noticed a few changes around here. We've got some new digs and we're pretty excited about it!
So here's your official welcome.
Take some time and look around.
Get to know the
