What if "love one another" was never meant to be a solo assignment? Guest preacher Rev. Jordan Gignilliat brings a disarming, funny, and convicting word on Romans 12:9–16 — drawing a surprising parallel between the global yoga community and the worldwide Church to expose how easily like-minded people wound each other. At the heart of it all is agape — the freely given, gloriously irresponsible love that only the Holy Spirit makes possible. Come be challenged to keep showing up for one another.#PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JordanGignilliat #Romans12 #AgapeLove #GenuineLove #ChristianUnity #LetLoveBeGenuine #GuestPreacher #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch

Can the Holy Spirit give you a brand new language and still leave your accent intact? On Pentecost, the birthday of the church, guest preacher Rev. Brooks Gignilliat, PCC's Staff Minister of Outreach, opens a new series, A Church Renewed, with Acts 2, the very moment the church was born in wind, fire, and tongues. Tracing God's pattern from the smoke and trembling of Mount Sinai through the tabernacle and the temple, the sermon shows a God who has always made a way where there was no way. Now, by the Spirit, God's dwelling place is no longer a building but a people. That raises a hard question: are we merely coming to the temple, or are we being the temple for others? Being the temple means people matter more than programs, and it means making room for those who do not look like us. The resurrection changes everything, so go live as the temple of God.#AChurchRenewed #NotesOnDoingChristianity #Acts2 #Pentecost #HolySpirit #MakeAWay #TempleOfGod #BirthdayOfTheChurch #TonguesOfFire #MountSinai #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevBrooksGignilliat #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What gives a person away as "not from around here"? Often it's an accent — and for the Apostle Peter, it was exactly that: the Galilean accent that exposed him the night he denied Jesus. On the Seventh Sunday of Easter — also Senior & Graduate Sunday and a lay-led celebration of the priesthood of all believers — guest preacher Dr. Mary Elizabeth Ellard brings the Listen to Peter series to a close with 1 Peter 4–5. Peter draws on his own failure to counsel a marginalized church on what to do when faith draws reproach, how to stand firm, and why it matters. Weaving together the fiery furnace of Daniel 3, the Greek word katartizō — to set a fracture — and a missionary's haunting line, "We have had no martyrs this year," Ellard urges us to speak a word for Christ. Because our decent, upstanding lives look just like everyone else's until we say the thing that gives us away.#ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter4 #ThingsWeSay #PriesthoodOfAllBelievers #FieryOrdeal #CastYourAnxieties #SpeakYourFaith #SeventhSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #SeniorSunday #GraduateSunday #FieryFurnace #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #DrMaryElizabethEllard #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What if the abundant life you were promised came with a warning label you didn't read first? On the Sixth Sunday of Easter, a day that also marked Mother's Day and Peachtree Christian Church's 101st Founders Day, complete with three baptisms, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the Listen to Peter series with 1 Peter 3:13–22, the passage where the apostle warns a marginalized church it may suffer for doing what is good, then says the strangest thing of all: do not be afraid. Drawing on his own organ transplant, the wordless repentance scene from the film The Mission, the aimless narrator of Fight Club, and a hard-won lesson from his own mother on a grade-school playground, Longbons argues that baptism into Christ pulls you into a deeper, truer world, one where Christ has suffered, been vindicated, and reigns. So do not fear what the world fears. You've been given a hope, and a purpose, that the grave couldn't hold.#ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter3 #DoNotBeAfraid #DeeperWorld #Baptism #ChristReigns #Vindication #SixthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #MothersDay #FoundersDay #TheMission #FightClub #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What did the world see when it first looked at the church? A ragtag group of peasants following a failed messiah. On the fifth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the Listen to Peter series with 1 Peter 2:2–10 — the passage where the apostle hands marginalized believers four words that have outlived every empire that mocked them: chosen, royal, holy, God's own. Drawing on the South African concept of ubuntu and the Pygmalion effect, Longbons argues that what we see is what we become. Don't beg the world for validation. You've already been called out of the darkness. #ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter2 #LivingStones #RoyalPriesthood #HolyNation #ChosenPeople #FifthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #Ubuntu #ArtOfSeeing #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

Not all suffering is created equal. On the fourth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons opens a new four-week series — Listen to Peter: Notes on Doing Christianity — with 1 Peter 2:19–25. Peter draws a hard line between the suffering that's just consequence and the suffering that's a credit. If you ache because you've done wrong, that's growing up. But if you ache because you've followed Jesus into a world that doesn't want him, that's looking like Jesus. Keep your eyes on the cross, church. This is not the end. #ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter2 #SufferingForChrist #FollowingJesus #FourthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #ChristianWitness #ChristTheShepherd #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

You don't arrive. You keep walking. On the third Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons follows two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13–35), where Jesus appears as a stranger, opens the scriptures, and is recognized only in the breaking of bread — then vanishes, sending them back the way they came with hearts still burning. Drawing on his own near-death experience and the fade-out that follows any spiritual high, Longbons makes the case that black belts are beginners and the Christian life is less arrival than savoring. Keep walking, pilgrims. Christ is still on the road.#PilgrimsOfHope #Emmaus #Luke24 #RoadToEmmaus #BreakingOfBread #HeartsBurning #EasterSeason #ThirdSundayOfEaster #SacredPilgrimage #Discipleship #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What if the locked room where the disciples hid was the garden where God was breathing life back into the world? On the second Sunday of Easter, Rev. Brooks Gignilliat reads John 20:19–31 against the opening pages of Genesis — and finds Jesus, on the first day of the week, breathing on his disciples the way God once breathed on Adam. Thomas wants to grasp; he wants the facts in his own hands. But faith isn't grasping — it's letting go long enough to say, "My Lord and my God." The point was never the answers. The point is the relationship.#PilgrimsOfHope #DoubtingThomas #John20 #NewCreation #BreathOfLife #SecondSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #FromFearToFaith #MyLordAndMyGod #SacredPilgrimage #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevBrooksGignilliat

The Roman soldiers had everything the world calls life — power, position, pay — and at the sight of resurrection, they fell over like dead men. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary had nothing the world counts — and they ran from the empty tomb fully alive, fear and joy pulsing through them. On Easter Sunday, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches Matthew 28:1–10 alongside St. Irenaeus's old line: the glory of God is a human being fully alive. Christ is risen. The question is whether you are.#eastersunday #Easter2026 #Matthew28 #ChristIsRisen #ResurrectionDay #FullyAlive #GloryOfGod #StIrenaeus #EmptyTomb #TheTwoMarys #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

Jesus comes to Jerusalem to cause good trouble — the holy kind. On Palm Sunday, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons reads Matthew 21:1–11 against a Passover-swelled city the size of an Olympic host town, where every pilgrim hoped for a king to throw off Rome — and got, instead, a king on a donkey who refuses to give what we want so he can give what we need. The waving palms become a question: are we ready to follow a Lord whose triumph looks like trouble, and whose throne looks like a cross?Hashtags: #PilgrimsOfHope #PalmSunday #Matthew21 #TriumphalEntry #HolyWeek #GoodTrouble #LentenJourney #SacredPilgrimage #Hosanna #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons