A Mission Reminder Symbol
If you’ve been around Pilgrim Lutheran for any length of time you’ve seen that we use at least three symbols to help identify who and what we are. If you come to worship perhaps the most memorable symbol you’ll see is the golden cross that hangs over the altar, as if by magic. Hanging at [...]
Operation Andrew brochures
If you’d like to learn more about Operation Andrew and how we’re implementing it here at Pilgrim Lutheran take a look at one (or more) of our Operation Andrew brochures. The brochures briefly explain the five steps and provide a place for participants to sign up for up to five names of people they’ll pray [...]
Bible Prayer Meeting
To help us grow in our lives of study and prayer we’re continuing with our Bible Prayer Meeting experiment. This is a time of contemplation, discussion, and prayer that we hold in Pilgrim’s sanctuary. Our next set is Thursday, January 14th, at both 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM. We’ll have one “movement,” which will have [...]
Operation Andrew
January 1, 2010 Dear Friends, I would like to share with you a true story about a young lady named Jamie. She was a volunteer at a youth conference held at Ocean City. One night she went for a walk along the boardwalk. As she was walking along the beach, she thought she heard someone [...]
Present Future Points
What does The Present Future have to say. In helping us look to the future, Reggie McNeal talks about six “new realities” and, in each points out the “wrong” question — the one we often spend our time on — and the “tough” question — the one we should really be studying. Here are McNeal’s [...]
The Present Future DVD study series
Conversations change the world. Abraham’s conversation with an invisible God forever altered human history. Moses’ conversations with a voice emanating from a burning bush initiated the biggest event in Old Testament history. Paul’s conversation with a resurrected Jesus launched the Christian movement as a phenomenon. And, most dramatically, the Word became flesh—the conversation of God [...]
The Missional Church
As a follow-up to his book The Present Future I’ve started reading Reggie McNeal’s Missional Renaissance. For those Pilgrims who were present for our session with Dr. Scherer last fall, McNeal’s book is a continuation of that. This is from McNeal’s introduction: “The rise of the missional church is the single biggest development in Christianity [...]
A Baby Changes Everything (part 3)
Here’s a video of the song by Faith Hill along with some video set to the music. It is a good conclusion to our A Baby Changes Everything series. May the words and pictures touch your soul as you consider them and their meaning for your life during this Epiphany season.
A Baby Changes Everything (part 2)
That song continues to be stuck in my heart. Even though it’s Epiphany I believe that it’s appropriate to continue to keep these thoughts before you that they might help change your heart, too. As I mentioned last month the song concludes with these words: My whole life has turned around I was lost, but [...]
A Baby Changes Everything (part 1)
Sometimes a song sticks in your mind. This one stuck in my heart. I first heard it on Christmas Day evening. I was tired after a long couple of days so I plopped down in the chair and turned on the TV. There wasn’t much on so I kept flipping through the channels until I [...]