3 Resources for Your Advent Journey
Black Friday? Ha! That’s so 2013. This year we had way more opportunities to “save.” There was Grey Thursday, Small Biz Saturday, Sofa Sunday and Cyber Monday. A consumer’s dream.…
[re]gift
Ever received a gift at Christmas, that you knew at the time was simply not going to work? Maybe it was the wrong size or color or style. Maybe it…
Keep the Water Flowing: A Mobilization Report from the Dominican Republic
Tonight our most recent clean water mission team will present and speak to their experiences in the rural Dominican sugar cane village where we built the building that will house…
Jesus Person
At Christmas at Johns Creek we’re having a group that will do sign language for the song “The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy.” As I was preparing for that,…
At the Heart of the Matter…It is a Matter of the Heart
Yes. Math is required. When it comes to pledging your financial generosity to your church, it certainly does involve calculating an anticipated income, tabulating a percentage of that income, and…
Belong.
We begin, belonging. We don’t ask to be born. We don’t audition for family. We don’t try out for life. We just begin. And most of the time, if things…
Socks and Shoeboxes!
Socks and Shoeboxes! Operation Christmas Child 2014 We are building a bridge of love to children all around the world by packing shoe boxes full of goodies. This has been…
Trunk or Treat…Making Connections that Count
In our current sermon series, “Love My Church”, we are taking a close look at the abundant life that is made possible in Jesus Christ, and are imagining how the…
You Gotta Love When a Plan Comes Together: A JCBC Mobilization Story
Several years ago, we became active on the island of Hispaniola as a result of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. JCBC mobilized a team to work at the epicenter in…
L.O.L.
This Sunday, we welcome the humor of Christian Comedian Anita Renfroe to Johns Creek Baptist Church. In thinking about the laughter that is to come, I have been thinking about…
Love My Church
What does it mean to be the church? I mean really. Just say the word church, and depending on who’s standing around at the time, the sound of it…
What I’d Do for a Clean Cup of Water
If we are honest, we would admit that among our list of worries clean water does not reside. Before I sat down to begin splitting infinitives, I walked to the…