Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund was released earlier this year. One of our members, Deborah Geesling, recently read it and we asked if she would share her thoughts on the book for the blog! Deborah, how would you sum up the content of this book in...
And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to...
It always starts with a decision. A choice. It may look like a mouse click. A purchase. The hesitation of a channel change. A phone call made. No matter what it looks like, you know it when it comes. We all do. It is the moment we make the slightest compromise, and before we know it, a slight...
What a Children’s Story Can Teach Us About Salvation Recently, I revisited C.S. Lewis’ classic children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia. In this collection of stories, we find ourselves transported to the enchanted world of Narnia – a world that leapt into existence...
Dear Center Church, I write to you with a heavy heart. This past weekend, a man named Keith Daukas publicly accused me of wrongdoings related to his internship with another church. He was a member of our church for nearly a decade and I truly appreciated my time with him and his family here...
I remember when I learned that placing pictures on a wall is a matter of reference - that what the picture is in reference to makes a difference. If I placed it with reference to the wall, say, in the middle of the wall, it looked lonely because it hung there without reference to whatever...
A Spiritual...Movie Experience?Have you ever had a spiritual experience while watching a kids movie? When The Incredibles came out in 2004 I saw it in the theaters more than once. Since then, it has quickly become my favorite Pixar movie. While I love it for a myriad of reasons (I cry at a...
Recently I co-led a six-week class on how to read the Bible*. While the class covered a number of topics, I want to highlight a few items that may help your Bible study. Read the Old TestamentI cannot express enough how simply reading the Old Testament (OT) will help you to better...
The City That is to Come: Future Hope in Present Crisis During our new normal, bad news has become a staple in our informational diet. Many news reports and social media posts we come across either contain some polarizing assertion, a statistical worst-case scenario, or some form of politicized...
The Center Church Blog For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one...
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