Brandywine Valley Baptist
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2018 Winter Retreat Recap
This past weekend was my tenth (!!!) winter retreat with Brandywine Valley Baptist Church; it was definitely one of the better ones! We had a great time. I actually went into the weekend a little worried; the weather was so mild in the weeks building up to the trip that there was no snow on…
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The 2018 Winter Retreat Rules video
We had our annual student ministry winter retreat this past weekend … which meant we needed to have rules! I’m too tired to post a weekend recap – but it was a good trip! The weather started off mild, but we got a few inches of snow Saturday night so it all ended with a…
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Lamentations
The other week I finished teaching through the book of Lamentations in our Sunday morning student hour. It was a part of our larger, seven year teaching plan that includes walking students through every book of the Bible. It is a fascinating book, one I have not been able to stop thinking about. Essentially, if…
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Celebrating the Reformation
This summer we tried something new with our adult Christian education program by having a unified theme and offering it during both worship hours (my role expanded a few months back to include adult Christian education). Essentially, we tackled the Reformation in honor of its coming 500th anniversary. Over the course of ten weeks we…
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Caleb and Micah’s Mission Trip Report
On June 25th, the student ministry took over both worship services at our church, Brandywine Valley Baptist Church, to share their favorite moments and what God taught them during the mission trips to Maine, Detroit and Peru. I was particularly proud and excited to hear what Caleb, my 13 year old son, would share about…
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Forgiveness and Abuse
Back in May I did a sermon on Colossians 3:12-17 and the call to Christians to forgive one another. If I’m honest, it was one of the more difficult sermons I’ve ever done. The first half was easy; the message of Colossians is pretty clear – but it is not a simple one to live…
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2016 Student Missions Slideshow
I’m sure I’ll post more thoughts soon … but I’m still slightly fried from the mission trips and all the buildup to them! The above is a slideshow I threw together late Saturday night (technically, early Sunday morning) giving a little bit of a taste of our three student ministry mission trips to Maine, North…
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Song of Songs series
We completed a five week series on the Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon, depending on your Bible) the other week which ended up being a lot more fascinating to me than I originally expected. It’s an interesting book, with a lot more complexity to it than it may seem at first glance. One…
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Praying for Missionaries
During the month of March my church is doing a 31 days of prayer challenge. The other pastors, myself, and some of the key leadership all contributed short devotionals to form a booklet we’ve been giving to our congregation and emailing daily devotionals from. This is one I wrote for last Sunday, the 27th: Missionaries…
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Praying for Unity
During the month of March my church is doing a 31 days of prayer challenge. The other pastors, myself, and some of the key leadership all contributed short devotionals to form a booklet we’ve been giving to our congregation and emailing daily devotionals from. This is one I wrote for last Friday, the 25th: Unity Philippians…