Holy Week at JCBC
The point and purpose of Lent, is movement. Lent, as a journey, is a reminder that we are headed somewhere. This season of contemplation and confession, reflection and repentance only…
Missional Outreach Saturday
Johns Creek Baptist mobilized her love in a variety of ways this past weekend during Missional Outreach Saturday. Nearly 300 members in all, dispersed across more than a dozen sites,…
Giving Up. Taking Up
Eventually, something gives. It’s not a matter of if, but when. On Ash Wednesday, I challenged the congregation to consider this unique and shared journey that we make toward Easter.…
The Mobilizing Power of Christ’s Church
Ministries of true significance and impact are underway at JCBC. Having just come out of a wonderfully successful Mobilization Fair, we have seen hundreds of our people making deliberate decisions…
7 Deadly Sins
During the second half of the fourth century, a monk by the name of Evagrius moved away from the city where he lived, into the desert. His motive was to…
Looking Back…Loving Forward
With banners, table clothes and folded tables still being put away, our Pastoral staff spent the better part of Tuesday reflecting and reviewing Sunday’s Mobilization Fair. Hearts overflowing with gratitude…
Soul-Marked
You are marked, you know. Soul-marked…by the love of God. But that can be so hard to remember; given all the other marks we bear. Marks of our own making.…
How do I know Jesus loves me?
“How do I know Jesus loves me?” one of our four year olds recently asked his teacher. How indeed is a child supposed to know that and trust it to…
We Mobilize to Love God. We mobilize to Love People.
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and…
A Life of Worship
When the word “worship” is used most people think of church. Then, within church, “worship” is mostly likely associated with a particular time on Sunday: “the 11:00 worship”…or whenever a…
Unfinished
Verna Peters would have been 90 years old on February 14th. She died in the early morning hours of February 2nd. Her longevity is, of course, impressive. Her life and…
Why Work With Youth?
Billy Graham was a lost sixteen-year-old high school student when he walked the isle of a revival in Charlotte, North Carolina, to accept Christ. Mother Teresa was fourteen when she…