Today we're rolling out an updated look for the church that we hope captures the essence of our mission and vision....
Morning Prayer of the One Who Already Feels Behind...
Jesus speaks of a world where your value isn’t based on what you can get but on what you give. A world where your value isn’t based on what you can gain for those on top of society but what you can do for those on the bottom of society. A world where value isn’t assigned based on what you do but what you do for....
For our next service project, Spirit and Life will be collecting specific items to be used in filling Cleaning Buckets which we will donate for hurricane relief. The buckets will be used by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to help victims of hurricanes in their effort to recover from the devastating effects of the storms. Last year, UMCOR exhausted their supply of these buckets due to the major hurricanes our country sustained....
We are a humble church, with no grand building to house our family on Sundays but we are rich in authenticity and strong in our bonds to one another. When we sing and pray it really feels as if we do so in a manner that worships god rather than revels in our own magnificence. We worship authentically and we worship biblically. That is what compelled my family to join Spirit and Life and I believe that this sense of earnestness and godliness is what has allowed us to make this church our home....
This article is one in of a series that discusses our core values. At Spirit & Life, we seek to be in relationship with each other as encounter Jesus invites us into relationship with God. We seek to accept everyone God calls into relationship with our community....
The Clumsy Moments of Praying With Your Child...
CD Release Concert #2 & Christmas Carol Sing Photo Gallery...
CD Release Track Number Ten: He Brought You To Me, (The Story)...
CD Release Track Number Fifteen: My Love, (The Story)...
CD Release Track Number Eleven: Life, (The Story)...
CD Release Track Number Eight: God Colored Lens, (The Story)...
CD Release Track Number One: The Way Back Home...
By now you probably know that our worship team at Spirit & Life is releasing a full length, 15 song, all original CD on October 14. All of the songs are written by the worship team. This is the story behind “Hear My Prayer,” track number three on the CD. ...
The story of the TAG (Tweens and God) mission trip called Helping Hands as told by cute pictures and captions. The pictures are cute because we have cute TAG members....
We Have an Ugly Cross in Our Midst This Lent...
Today’s Teens Really Are Different Than You Were...
How Christians Pass On Their Faith, The Long List of Resources...
Being a Parent is Intimidating Enough So How Can I Be the One to Pass On My Faith?...
I’ve been a musician just about all of my life. At the age of six my father bought me a full drum set and required me to take lessons and practice every day, seven days a week for at least 30 minutes. I took lessons for three years and in that time probably never practiced for less than 90 minutes a day. Music was my sanctuary, even at age six. By the time I was ten years old I was playing drums in my older brother’s band on nights their regular drummer couldn’t make it, which was most of the time actually....
I have accepted a challenge from my Bishop calling me to read the whole Bible in 2017. Here is the first in a series of posts about my reflections from reading the Bible and the new insights the Holy Spirit is giving me....
This past Sunday we finished our sermon series "How Christians ________" where we looked at a number of different topics we experience in our life and looked at what wisdom Scripture and the church can offer in those situations. Every week we had a resource that inspired the sermon (other than Scripture and Jesus). As we close the series we wanted to have put all those res...
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This past Sunday in church we looked at whether Scripture could give us any guidance when it came to parenting our children. I for one need guidance when it comes to being a parent. I have felt unprepared and overwhelmed by the task from day one. And in Paul Tripp's book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family we found direction, conviction, a...
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