Shades Midweek

We started a series at SVCC this past Sunday called "The Sermon" about the Sermon on the Mount. This week, Jonathan leads us in a deep dive conversation about the different perspectives on The Sermon on the Mount and much more!

JM's Album of the Week: Ritt Momney - Sunny Boy

Bradford's Book Club: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington

This week we interviewed worship leader and pastor Zac Hicks. We discussed his book, The Worship Pastor, CCLI, how to support artists in the church and more!!!

Zac Hicks (D.Min., Knox Theological Seminary; M.Div., Denver Seminary; B.A., Biola University) has been pastoring and leading worship for over two decades in churches all across the US—Hawaii, California, Colorado, Florida, and most recently Alabama. He is author of The Worship Pastor (Zondervan, 2016) and Worship By Faith Alone (IVP Academic, forthcoming). A songwriter and producer, Zac’s music is streaming everywhere. Zac’s passions include the intersection of old and new in worship, the pastoral dimensions of worship leading, and recovering the gospel-centered theology of the Reformation for the sake of worship renewal.

JM's Album Of The Week: Hovvdy - True Love

Bradford's Book Club: God's Very Good Idea: A True Story of God's Delightfully Different Family (Tales That Tell the Truth) by Trillia Newbell

This week we continued our Meet a member series by sitting down with one of the co-hosts of Shades Midweek and Lead Pastor of Shades Valley Community Church, Jonathan Haefs!

JM's Album of the Week: Boy Scouts - Wayfinder

Bradford's Book Club: The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World by Brett McCracken

We continued our SVCC 30th Anniversary series this week by interviewing SVCC's former Pastor Mike Garrigan!

JM's Album of the Week: Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days

Bradford's Book Club (Jonathan's Pick): Little Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition) by Helen L. Taylor 

John-Mark, Jonathan and Brad continue celebrating SVCC's 30th anniversary as a church by reflecting on the last ten years at Shades Valley.

JM's Album of the Week: Men I Trust - Untourable Album

Bradford's Book Club: Contemplative Prayer for Christians with Chronic Worry: An Eight Week Program by Joshua Knabb & Thomas Frederick

We continue our series on SVCC's 30th Anniversary by interviewing long time Shades members Parke Stalcup & Caroline Grant!

JM's Album of the Week: Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last

Bradford's Book Club: Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church - Edited by Ivan Mesa

This is the first episode in a series on the 30th anniversary of Shades Valley Community Church. This week we interviewed John Hudson of 100 Fold Studio. We discussed the architecture and aesthetic of our church building and much more!

John Hudson is the President and Architect of 100 Fold Studio. To learn more about 100 Fold visit 100foldstudio.org

JM's Album of the Week: Kanye West - Donda

Bradford's Book Club: A Mess of Help: From the Crucified Soul of Rock N' Roll by David W.F. Zahl

This week we talked about death with Cort Gatliff!

Cort Gatliff is the Assistant Minister for Discipleship at South Highland Presbyterian Church. He lives in Homewood with his wife, Abby, and his daughter, Eleanor.

Check out this book review written by Cort.

JM's Album of the Week: Lord Huron - Long Lost

Bradford's Book Club: A Burning In My Bones: The Authorized Biography Of Eugene H. Peterson by Winn Collier

On this week's episode we celebrate 25 years of Third Day's first official record release!

JM's Album of the Week: Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying

Bradford's Book Club: The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and contributed to many books, most recently Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential and Gospelbound: Living with Resolute Hope in an Anxious Age. He earned an MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and an undergraduate degree in journalism and history from Northwestern University. He edited Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He and his wife belong to Redeemer Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and he is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also serves on the advisory board.

JM's Album Of The Week: The Killers - Pressure Machine

Bradford's Book Club: The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk