We have been talking about emotional health (the past two messages are available here on our blog as video pod casts). For too long we have delegated “emotional issues” to the therapists office, or, ignored them entirely. Emotional health and spiritual health are inseparably linked and critical to real discipleship. (Peter Scazzero’s book on the […]
About half way through the 10:30 Mass this morning here at Ridgely Road, during the Creed, Austin (a Sunday staffer) came over to me and whispered “Crowne Plaza is filled.” It was one of those moments that I will easily remember for a long time, maybe forever. It is great when you get to […]
Our Crowne Plaza launch is just a week away and we are really excited. This is the final post in a series of posts looking at what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. If you haven’t had a chance, take a look at the last two weeks. This week, just some final thoughts. The […]
Crowne Plaza is two weeks away and we’ve been discussing some questions about what we’re doing. What we’re doing is hosting a worship service for people in our North Baltimore community who grew up Catholic and no longer go to Church, mostly because they don’t like Church. Why are we doing it? Because there are alot […]
We’re getting pretty excited about the upcoming launch of our Crowne Plaza venue. But we’re still getting questions about why we’re doing this. The next few posts we’re going to field some of the questions we’ve been getting. First question, number one question: “What are we doing and why are we doing it?” The original impetus came […]
Most of my experience of church growing up was boring. I realize that some of that was due to my spiritual immaturity, but the experiences were still boring: not aggressively bad, but hardly good, hardly ever well done, rarely joyous or challenging, just boring. Unfortunately, my experience is in no way exceptional. Church should not […]
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit […]
This weekend we made a big announcement, at least we thought it was a big announcement. At prime time church time (9-12 Sunday mornings) we have no space, no seats, no overflow area, no standing room, nothing. We didn’t have a creche this year, or last year, because we don’t have any room to display […]
This weekend we are back to full stride and introducing a new message series called YOU. I am very excited about the series and even more excited about a great big announcement we are making. Actually, we’re making several announcements this weekend, and they’re all about “you.” What you can do working together as a […]
2009 was a great year full of blessings. Here are (just) a few of the highlights for me: Winter/Spring: spiritual warfare; the cool looking Ministry Fair; our high school students on Good Friday; Easter Sunday Praise Party; our Spring Staff Retreat; the people committed to strengthening our small group commitment Summer: trying out […]
