In March we lamented the loss of life, relationships, freedoms, and sense of vocation.

This week we get to celebrate the joy of life, relationships, freedoms, and sense of vocation.

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The "Now" and "Not Yet" tension explained by Alpha

We were thrilled to host another webinar as an extension of Spring Church's Healing Our Broken Humanity small group. On April 21, we are joined by honored guest, Father Emmanuel Katongole, who shared powerful stories about racial healing and encouraged us how to follow Jesus in this version of America we encounter today. Pastor Matt McCoy facilitated this conversation between Father Katonogle and Spring Church's Healing Our Broken Humanity small group leader, Ali Raetz. Any questions about this small group can be directed to Ali at [email protected]. 

How might we live differently if we believed that our race isn’t a temporary problem to be endured, but an eternal reality to be celebrated? What if our discipleship invited us to reimagine race as part of God’s good creation, and as something that exists even in heaven?

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Why Is Jesus Still Wounded After His Resurrection?

Article by Peter Wehner

Read by Matt McCoy, pastor at Spring Church

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All through the season of Lent, we’ve been writing and praying laments.

We’ve lamented our own deaths, our racial brokenness, this pandemic world, and those left out.

As we began the process of praying and writing these laments, we’ve remembered that a lament is not a trip to the hospital where you’re hoping for a healing. It’s a trip to the grave. We lament when things are hopeless and broken.

We will write and pray a celebration for Easter and over the next 4 weeks!

Join us this Easter! 

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Americans love comfort, and I love comfort. And excluding uncommon friends often helps me feel more comfortable, which does not give them the seriousness, care, and respect they deserve, either. 

Are we hearing the voices of our youth preaching to us? How is Spring Church worshipping in ways that effortlessly exclude our uncommon friends? This coming Palm Sunday, we’ll gather together to lament everyone who’s been left out.

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At the year marker for the pandemic, we lament all the things that have been lost, from lives to relationships to jobs to happiness. We lament broken marriages and broken promises and broken societies. Together we lay all this at the feet of Jesus, and as Jesus reveals his kingdom in the midst of this broken mess, we pray for his strength to be able to walk in the direction he’s walking.

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This Sunday is the second of four lament services for Lent, where we’ll gather together and write and pray a lament about racial brokenness, because all of us have, at some point in the last year, have been around when harmful racial brokenness has been on display in our neighborhoods.

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How has death impacted our deepest longings?⁣

We typically don't like to think or talk about death very often because it can be painful and uncomfortable. ⁣

On Ash Wednesday, we pause as a church and remember that death is a part of life. We know Easter is coming, so we know death doesn’t have the last word, but we still feel the sting of death together as a church as we start the Easter season together. ⁣

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The first half of the Easter season is called Lent, and that’s when we’ll focus on lament.

The second half of the Easter season is called Eastertide, and that’s when we’ll focus on celebration. 

All of us have learned how to do something through practicing that particular something, so pause for a moment and think of an example of something you’ve learned how to do by practicing at it. What did it feel like the first time you tried it? The first time driving a car is scary, the first time playing a musical instrument is unpleasant, and the first time cooking a new dish is risky. Learning new skills requires a bit of courage, and a sense of humor because it often doesn’t go the way we want it to go. This is all very normal.

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