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.
How the Spirit transforms us then, now, and forever
4 minute read
Artwork: Breaking Bread • Acrylics on Canvas • 5' x 9' by Carol Aust
What if My Pentecost Life and my Normal Life is the Same Life?
7 minute read
Pentecost has often been a peculiar day for me. I love the story of how the third member of the Trinity is sent: I love the fire, and wind, and the Church preaching in a miraculous foreign language. I love reading the book of Acts like a script for a movie, and I love how this story reminds us every year about how the Holy Spirit is still with the Church today.
Soccer with five-year-olds
Few things illustrate an integrated life like youth soccer, and I love how youth soccer illustrates how much I have to learn from the youth.
My Normal Life and my Great Commission Life are the Same (Part 3)
Iain’s observation, which helped me walk away from an unhealthy separation of my Great Commission life from my Normal Life, was that mentoring is something that happens best within the context of friendship. And we embodied mentorship and friendship in a way that became more clear to me. We had both, at the same time.