The day-after-the-inauguration of president Biden, Spring Church hosted a webinar conversation with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah to explore how the American Church might be contributing to some of the problems we are experiencing and come up with some practical steps on how we might move forward.

Dr. Rah was joined by two friends of Spring Church, Kevin and Danielle Riley. The conversation was moderated by Spring Church pastor, Matt McCoy. During the conversation, we take an honest look at the world as we really find it and Dr. Rah explains why lament is a necessary response and how action, commitment, and community are a result of our lament.

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Throughout the Bible, most stories portray most religious leaders in a negative light most of the time. And that’s because religious leaders tend to deserve it. While I am often frustrated and saddened by the behavior of the religious leaders in the Bible, when it comes to the story we celebrate at the Feast of the Epiphany, I’m willing to give those religious leaders a little bit of slack because this story is straight crazy!

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Have you ever thought about how Ruth and the Magi are connected? Yeah, me neither. But as I started preparing for our Epiphany service coming up next week, I realized that they’re connected by a very significant theme…

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This isn’t some Christmas story where we take our eyes off our problems and just focus on the baby Jesus.  The spaces we inhabit are still broken. This is still a version of Spring Church that is broken.  But Jesus fills these broken spaces, because in the broken spaces is where we find room for him.

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Every other advent, I’ve focused my attention on how I prepare room in my heart for God through the active waiting of all our advent traditions. But advent 2020? For the first time in my life, I’ve been focusing on how God prepares the room through the events that we didn’t choose.

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The question we’re inviting you to ask is a continuation of our recently completed series on Ruth, and gives us an opportunity to live out those themes in our neighborhoods: Who is the Spirit inviting you to walk through Advent and Christmas with?

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Our friends at Collide Women's Ministry kindly invited Matt and Denise McCoy to share on hospitality and uncommon friendship on their podcast. Their conversation highlights God's unfolding story in their lives and in the Spring Church Community as Matt and Denise share about doing things WITH not FOR other people who are different than ourselves. 

Here is the original podcast recording on the Collide website 

Here is a blog post written by Matt McCoy diving further into this topic

Gustavo Santos join Spring Church small group "Heading North" to help us reimagine our vocation. This podcast includes various voices from Spring Church participating in this conversation and asking questions along the way. 

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We were so thrilled to have Australian theologian, Dr. Graham Hill, join us to introduce the upcoming small group called "Healing Our Broken Humanity" starting fall 2020. We will be going through the Healing Our Broken Humanity 7-part film series from the Global Church Project, and as a group, we will watch video interviews of individuals from all across the world talk about race, repentance, reconciliation, and what we can do in our neighborhoods to bring change, hope, and healing. This conversation is a recording of the webinar featuring Spring Church Pastor, Matt McCoy, Ali Raetz and Tracy Imbach as panelists, and special guest, Dr. Graham Hill from Australia, who is the founder of the Global Church Project and co-author of Healing Our Broken Humanity. 

Check out the official page for this new Small Group here! 

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