When we met, we had both been married previously. We thought that because we had navigated marriage successfully before, we knew what we were doing and pretty much had it figured out. Boy, were we naïve!
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Life regularly presents us with people who are very different than we are. And part of loving each other well is understanding and accepting – and even celebrating – our differences. Our recent Table Manners series gives us nine truths to remember as we practice love.
A couple weeks ago we put on our first Creative Kids Art Camp. It was a week full of paint, inspiration, fun, mess, and art. It was a beautiful time of discovering the creativity in them. “We are artists, because God is.” – Peter Kreeft
In high school, small groups played a huge part in the development and consistency of my faith, and gave me relationships and connections. In college it’s not as easy to make those connections. With Orbit, we can sit with each other, remember that we are not alone and be reminded that God has a beautiful plan for our lives.
We started a marriage class at the same time we started attending Pulpit Rock. We thought this class would be a great way to meet couples and build community with good people who are committed to each other and God. What we didn’t know or expect was how much this class would help our marriage.
With the recent transition in leadership, Thomas begins a new role as Pastor of Spiritual Formation. Here he explains what this means and how rather than being a bystander in our own spiritual lives, we can step out and become active participants with God in our spiritual formation.
We’ve just wrapped up another year of Sports Camp and it was packed full of sports, fun, singing, dancing, and most of all, Jesus. Spicy Mike and Sweet T even made a surprise comeback! It was a fantastic week. Here’s a quick photo recap.
While change is sometimes scary, it is also exciting because it means that God is moving and we are responding. That is why we are really excited to share with you a big change that is happening for our church family over the next couple months.
Telling stories are a big part of what we do here, and baptism is essentially telling two stories – first that Jesus died and was buried, but then rose from the dead and is alive. And second that you believe this happened and that you became a new creation when you decided to follow Jesus.
Sports Camp starts tonight and we’d like to invite you to join us in praying for this event and the hundreds who are involved. We have a daily prayer focus and have included some specific prayers Would you join us?
We are so excited to tell you about some new things in the works for the men and women of Pulpit Rock! God has been stirring some big things into the hearts of a few people we’d like to introduce you to.
