Called to Teach
My first newsletter article as your Children’s Minister! What a privilege to be able to share with you each month. Actually, I think the boys just wanted an extra week to not have to write. :-)...
Keep ReadingIntroducing Whitney
I would just like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude and excitement. You all have always been very welcoming and loving ever since I moved down to Texas, and I cannot thank you enough for making me feel a part of your family. I am so excited to come alongside the parents and teachers in helping disciple the children of South Hills to be children of God, learning about Christ’s love and growing in our knowledge of who He is....
Looking Ahead
I am truly thankful for our South Hills family. I am excited about new opportunities coming our way this year through new members joining and new classes starting. I am excited about and grateful for continued opportunities as we provide goody bags for high attendance at Dallas Park each month, and partnering with the BSM to provide lunch to students of Tarleton Fort Worth....
Small Groups at South Hills
Small Groups at South Hills are NOT a small deal. They’re huge! In fact, they are one of the most important pieces of our strategy to fulfill the Great Commission. Our newest Small Group (the Coed 60’s+ class led by Glen Frailey) has grown by leaps and bounds. New things usually do. In fact, this Sunday, they almost had too many people for their room! ...
Love Came For Me
“Love Came For Me” is a great theme to reflect on the beauty and magnitude of Christmas. As we celebrate Christmas it is important to keep our focus where it needs to be – on Jesus Christ and why He came to earth....
What is God calling us out of or away from?
I cannot believe another year is drawing to a close. With Thanksgiving Day behind us, we can give thanks for our Savior as the Christmas season is here. I am thankful for each of you who have worked so diligently to set up for the Christmas Hayride. I am thankful for each of you who have volunteered to be here one or more weekends. Friday, December 7, is the first night. Please pray for each person and family who will experience Jesus during the Hayride. Please sign up to help and bring cookies. The dates are Friday and Saturday (Dec. 7-8,14-15, and 21-22). ...
The Purpose of Discipleship Ministry
The purpose of our Discipleship Ministry at South Hills Baptist Church is just four words (and one hyphen): Becoming and Building Disciple-Makers. It’s so simple, and yet implicit in the phrase itself is the truth that discipleship is a life-time process. ...
Commitment
It’s a beautiful Fall Monday morning and I am sitting here in my office trying to get a grasp on what all needs to be done this week and trying to prioritize my schedule. As November gets into full swing it seems like our calendars get full quickly with all the holiday happenings and such. ...
Scripture is Living and Active
Because Scripture is living and active, it still speaks to us today. We can never get to the end of it. We will never know all that there is to know about the Bible. There’s always more to experience and learn, the adventure goes on an on....
Therefore
As we approach Fall Festival, we are still taking candy donations, and you will have the opportunity to sign up to serve in many areas. These include food prep, games, bounce houses, and/or trunks. Please pray about where to serve, and look for opportunities to promote Fall Festival in your neighborhood....
Do What You Want To
Worship moves us from a place of adoration to confession (seeing who God is makes us confront our sinfulness) and from thanksgiving to intercession (seeing what He has done makes us ask Him for more). These elements of worship ultimately bring us to a place of dedication....
Let's Grow
What an amazing day of worship! In Small Group, the students studied that a commitment to Christ would naturally push us to encourage others to have a relationship with Christ. We entered worship and celebrated with Cade and Ralph as they were baptized, and Pastor Chris led us in a study of Ephesians 2:8-10. As we grow in our relationship with God, we grow in grace. When w...
Keep ReadingHis Mercy Is More
Happy New Year! I’m going to start featuring new songs we sing in my newsletter articles this year. The first song we will teach this year is called, “His Mercy Is More” by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa. This Sunday, as Chris begins his new sermon series, “Let’s Grow” we will recall that all of our endeavors for the Kingdom are based on His grace....
Keep ReadingHappy New Year!
Happy New Year! 2018 is off and running and I hope you are excited to venture into this new year and see what God has in store for your life. For some of us, we did not want 2017 to end because it was a great year for us. Others of us could not wait for 2017 to be over in hopes that 2018 will be much better....
Keep ReadingBehold the Savior
How great it’s been, for the last two Sundays, to focus on the meaning of Christmas Carols through the preaching of God’s Word! I’m so thankful to God for a Pastor who approaches weekly sermons creatively and carefully. This coming Sunday, our church family will have the opportunity to encounter and respond to Biblical truth in song for the entire service, under the ...
Keep ReadingThe Star
Last night, after a great day of worship, my family went to see the movie “The Star” that opened recently in the theaters....
Keep ReadingThanksgiving and Christmas Project
I pray each of you had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. We have so much for which to be thankful. I’m thankful for each of you, but also thankful to Pastor Chris giving me the opportunity to preach/teach....
Keep ReadingHospitality
This is a time of year that provides our church family with another opportunity to choose where our focus will be. As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, we tend to “get back to basics” and “focus on the things that are truly important” such as “family and friends.” I suggest that this is the perfect season in the life of our church to rededicate ourselves to ...
Keep ReadingHis Faithful Love Endures Forever
Yesterday in my message I spoke briefly about the tension that sometimes exists in our hearts when we think about God’s sovereignty and His love. I was speaking about God’s power and wisdom and how He knows what is best for our lives. We know this to be true, but when we find ourselves in difficult or confusing circumstances we can quickly experience feelings of fear a...
Keep ReadingReformation Day
This coming Sunday is Reformation Sunday. Just two days later is the 500th Anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, which began when Martin Luther nailed a document of his top 95 (!) arguments with the way church leaders had been running things, to the door of his local church on October 31, 1517. In retrospect, this document was his own version of “I Am a...
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