Merry Christmas Soul City Church!

Do you ever feel rushed at Christmas time? Overly busy? Like your days are so full, but nothing in your days is filling you up? This week, we will learn how, even in the busyness of the holiday season, we can learn to be present to ourselves, to others, and ultimately to God.

For some, this Christmas isn't very merry, and these holidays aren't very happy. Some are feeling the pain of another Christmas alone, another Christmas without a loved one, another Christmas without money in the bank account, or another where the dream has yet to be realized. This week, we will learn that while the Christmas season is one of the most common season to feel hopeless in, it is also the perfect season to find hope in.

Christmas is known as the season of GIVING. But in a consumer culture, it is so easy to forget that. It is so easy for giving to become an obligation rather than a genuinely generous act. Or even to start focusing more on what we are receiving from others, rather than what we’re giving to them. This week, by examining the generous heart of God, we will seek to reclaim and regrow a heart of generosity in ourselves.

Usually, we think about gratitude as being a product of good circumstances. When good things happen, we are more grateful. When good things don’t happen, we are not as grateful. But what if gratitude was not merely a reactionary feeling? What if gratitude was actually a proactive choice? And what kind of effect might that have on our life and faith?

Soul City Celebrates its 14th Anniversary!

The week of an election is never an easy time. It can be filled with personal anxiety, as well as social unrest. As we walk into this election week, we want prayer to be our first response, not our last resort. So this weekend, we will host a prayer gathering for our church, our city, and our country. Going into an important week, let us center our minds and hearts on what's most important.

During election season, divisions and disagreements run so deep, that it can be easy to completely disengage from anyone who doesn’t see the world the way you do or who doesn’t vote the way you would. This, however, is not the way of Jesus. This week, we will discover how the enemy-loving, barrier-breaking, bridge-building love of Jesus calls us to sit shoulder to shoulder, even with those whom we don’t see eye to eye.

This time of year, it becomes so easy to put people in a box based on which box they check at the polls. We then begin to see both ourselves and others through the lens of our/their political preferences. However, Scripture gives us a completely different vision for how we are to see ourselves and others. This week, we will learn what it means for us to be made in the image of God, and what it looks like to remember that others are as well, regardless of who they vote for.