Written by: Chris Plekenpol I first heard the term “functional savior” in a sermon preached by Mark Driscoll. A “functional savior” is what we turn to functionally satisfy our desires, cope with our pain, or escape from reality. If you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead, you should also believe that…
I recently went to prison. Did that get your attention? I was among a large team of people who spent a Saturday in the prisons in order to serve the inmates. I really didn’t know what to expect, but I knew I wanted to be an instrument of God’s love and grace to the women there. I knew the prison…
Check out this recap video of our 2014 Volunteer Appreciation party. Big thanks to all our amazing volunteers!
Hey Family, It has been a great series and have enjoyed the reaction and feedback from the series What is the Church? It is now time to move to our pre-Easter series, What’s So Amazing About Grace? This series we will investigate why it is that Christians get so excited that they would write songs, poetry, books, and cheesy movies…
I love subway. It may be my favorite “not” fast-food place to go; it was cheap and consistent. So when Brandee and I were travelling to St. Louis from Houston for Urbana 2009, it was the place I naturally suggested we stop at for lunch as we drove through Dallas. We ate quickly, and we, along with my brother and…
When answering this question, we must overcome a lot of baggage. We have to overcome the desire to relay what we we’ve heard or even seen and get back to what its intention was. When someone says the word, church, we automatically think of a building. Everyday as I get off Interstate 35, I see a sign that warns oncoming…
“We’ll have to quarantine you.” Those may be some of the most discouraging words ever spoken to me in my life. For seven summers in a row, I volunteered with my youth group in Houston at a Christian summer camp in Purdy, Missouri for campers with special needs. After my junior year in college, I decided I wanted to take…
This Sunday we are going to start a new series called Relationship 101. Whether you are dating, you are married, you are single and want to be in a relationship, you will want to hear about this.
Nearly all of this information was taken from Dr. Dan Wallace’s book Reinventing Jesus, which was written largely as a response to Dr. Bart Ehrman’s work attempting to discredit the Bible’s reliability. You can also find Dr. Wallace at the Dallas Theological website: dts.edu.