Lent Devotion – The Soundtrack of Life

Posted March 26, 2024 by Jordan McInnis in Lent

“School Bus” is the title I gave one of my most loved Spotify playlists. It’s a collection of punk rock songs that were popular when I was in middle and high school. I got my first hot pink iPod nano in fifth grade and my first iPod touch in eighth grade, and not a school day went by that I wasn’t jamming to these songs on the way to and from school.
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Monday Over Coffee: "Sit"

Posted March 25, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee

Growing up, three little books made a great impact on me as a young Christian: The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis, Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips and Sit, Walk, Stand by Watchman Nee. The insight packed inside these three slender volumes was profound.
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Family Ministry Lenten Reading Plan

Posted March 25, 2024 by Family Ministry Team in Family Ministry, Lent

It is our final week of our Lenten reading plan. As you walk through this final week reflect on how you are able to journey through this week from the low of Good Friday to the highest of high on Easter.
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Lent Devotion – Going Home

Posted March 21, 2024 by Gail Musgrove in Lent

My mother served the Lord faithfully for almost 90 years. She was a dedicated servant and teacher and lived her life for God. It was in her final months that I witnessed and shared in her deepest longing…to be HOME with her Savior. At age 96, she had a medical episode that landed her in the hospital, and she made it quite clear that she wanted to go HOME. However, after the hospital stay came a…
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Lent Devotion – The Miracle

Posted March 19, 2024 by Johnny Villaseñor in Lent

The biggest road I have had to follow was when I received my diagnosis of kidney failure in 2016. After hearing those words, I began to focus first on what was needed to protect my family. I wanted to make sure they would be taken care of and make sure that everything would be okay. After we received the diagnosis, Melinda and I began to make arrangements with a different timeline laid out before…
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Monday Over Coffee: "Delight"

Posted March 18, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee

One of the most wonderful and memorable experiences I’ve had at our church was as an audience member of a musical performance by Harold Wade. A long-time member of our congregation, Harold was a gifted engineer by trade but also a trained musician.
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Family Ministry Lenten Reading Plan

Posted March 18, 2024 by Family Ministry Team in Family Ministry, Lent

For 7 weeks, you’re invited to join us as we read through the gospel of Mark together. Maybe you’ll see that reading the Bible is a great way to deepen your faith. Maybe you’ll learn something new. Maybe by reading Scripture each day, you’ll begin to notice God more.
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Lent Devotion – The Way Through Loneliness

Posted March 14, 2024 by Caleb Rosenblad in Lent

On the night of Jesus’ betrayal, He was abandoned by His disciples. The Shepherd was struck, and the sheep ran. The women remained; they could only watch as He was subjected to utter atrocities. Even as Jesus hung upon the cross, He cried out, “My God, My God! Why have You forsaken Me?” The ultimate hour of loneliness: not even God would look upon His face. We often embellish the scars, the nails…
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Lent Devotion – I Want to Live Like That

Posted March 12, 2024 by Sally Reed in Lent

I love the notion, “recklessly abandoned, never holding back” because it’s so inviting. Almost childlike in its sense of fun and spontaneity but with a sense of real intention. Maybe that’s why I loved being a youth leader, why I adore my grandkids. Kids are at once about living in the moment and hungry to learn their purpose.
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Monday Over Coffee: "The Tonic of Movement"

Posted March 11, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee

I was recently at a wedding reception, and there…I danced. I have a good friend who says whenever he’s at such an event and steps out onto the dance floor, inevitably, an inner dialogue starts up in his mind, reminding him, “You know you’re dancing right now. People are watching. What’s that thing you’re doing with your arms? What exactly is it you keep on doing with your legs?” He begins to…
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Family Ministry Lenten Reading Plan

Posted March 11, 2024 by Family Ministry Team in Family Ministry, Lent

For 7 weeks, you’re invited to join us as we read through the gospel of Mark together. Maybe you’ll see that reading the Bible is a great way to deepen your faith. Maybe you’ll learn something new. Maybe by reading Scripture each day, you’ll begin to notice God more.
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Lent Devotion – Closer to God

Posted March 7, 2024 by Liza Lane in Lent

When I was asked to describe an experience in my life that helped me understand or practice the way of Jesus’ cross more fully, I instantly knew I had to share how my husband’s sudden death had brought me closer to God. I’ll start with the backstory and end with my rescue.
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Family Ministry Lenten Reading Plan

Posted March 6, 2024 by Family Ministry Team in Family Ministry, Lent

For 7 weeks, you’re invited to join us as we read through the gospel of Mark together. Maybe you’ll see that reading the Bible is a great way to deepen your faith. Maybe you’ll learn something new. Maybe by reading Scripture each day, you’ll begin to notice God more.
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Lent Devotion – Prayer

Posted March 5, 2024 by Carol Shattuck in Lent

Two years ago in March of 2022, Dave and I made a long-awaited trip to the Holy Land. We traveled with a group from South Main, led by Pastor Steve Wells and his Baylor colleague and New Testament scholar, Dr. Todd Still. After we arrived, one of the first places we visited was an olive grove thought to be the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives.
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Monday Over Coffee: "Synesthesia"

Posted March 4, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee

One afternoon when our son Charlie was about ten years old, my wife Kelly was watching a show in which actress Molly Shannon was being interviewed. In passing, Shannon mentioned to the host that her mind had an odd way of automatically associating numbers and letters with certain colors. For instance, 8 was always purple, 9 was always orange, K was always green, and L always blue. All the numbers…
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Lent Devotion – Found

Posted February 29, 2024 by Dan Masterson in Lent

For most of my life I was truly lost in the wilderness. Then, a remarkable turning point came after I found myself back in Houston and living in Midtown. I’m now a part of two fellowship groups here in Houston that have granted me the opportunity to be of service. Attendance at these group fellowships then guided my newfound relationship with God.
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Lent Devotion – With Love in My Heart

Posted February 27, 2024 by Andrea Hoxie in Lent

"I will greet this day with love in my heart." That is the first line from the second scroll of Og Mandino’s book "The Greatest Salesman in the World." I first read that book as a newly licensed insurance agent, venturing into the arena of Medicare insurance.
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Monday Over Coffee: "What Is It That You Do?

Posted February 26, 2024 by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee

Often it’s the first question we’re asked when we meet someone new, and we typically respond with the name of a job or profession, a role we’ve taken on, or a word about how our days are spent in the stage of life we’re in. So, what is it that you do?
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Family Ministry Lenten Reading Plan

Posted February 26, 2024 by SMBC in Family Ministry, Lent

For 7 weeks, you’re invited to join us as we read through the gospel of Mark together. Maybe you’ll see that reading the Bible is a great way to deepen your faith. Maybe you’ll learn something new. Maybe by reading Scripture each day, you’ll begin to notice God more.
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Lent Devotion – Wherever He Leads I'll Go

Posted February 22, 2024 by Kristy Wade-Carroll in Lent

There’s a hymn I grew up singing that begins, “Take up thy cross and follow me, I heard my Master say…” It has always been special to me, partly because its title matches that of a story my grandma wrote about discerning how her future with my grandpa intersected with God’s call on her life. To leave seminary and change the shape of her missionary dreams was a choice she made without knowing the…
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