Community Stories
These short stories either follow what Spring Church is focusing on in a particular season, like Christmas or Easter, or they take culturally relevant topics and frame them through a Biblical lens. You can look through our entire category of over 7 years of stories using the dropdown.
My Normal Life and my Great Commission Life are the same Life (Part 2)
I loved all the conversations and prayers and moments of realizing that Denise was right: discipleship begins in the home. But discerning what to do next is another matter entirely.
My Normal Life and my Great Commission Life are the same Life (Part 1)
What if the Great Commission included all these dirty diapers? What if the Great Commission is about this family, and this giant pile of laundry, and our neighbors, and the people at work, and our small group, and church? Why do we have to stop our Normal Life, go do some amazing Great Commission Thing somewhere far away, and then come back to our Normal Life?
Entering the Easter Story
The season of Lent is an annual reminder of all the things Jesus doesn’t do, and I need it every year, because every year I lose sight of how Jesus doesn’t conquer my problems, or me, or the things I think are my enemy.
Love One Another Thursday
Today we’re going to compare news headlines from The New York Times and Fox News, because today is Love One Another Thursday.
You might be more familiar with the Latin name for today: Maundy Thursday. Back when the Church used Latin all the time, “Maundy” was the shorthand title for “Maundatus Novum,” which is Latin for “New Commandment.” What is the “new commandment” to which this Thursday points?
Today is Palm Sunday
Today is Palm Sunday, the day when we remember how God’s people were so focused on what they WANTED God to do for them, that it kept them from seeing what God was ACTUALLY DOING with them.