We can’t say it enough — Prayer Nights are so important! Last night our hearts were stirred as we read the Scriptures, confessed our sin and doubt and leaned in with faith to pray for God’s healing over one another. Powerful. Beautiful. This is the church. This is our God.

Gratitude is a choice more than it is a feeling.

Devoting ourselves weekly to praying together through upward praise, transparent confession & faith-filled petition has been one of the best decisions we have made as a church. It is the work behind all the movement we are seeing. Thank you Daniel Henderson for your example.

“Penitent hookers enter Heaven ahead of smug virgins” - Dane Ortlund

"Jesus' dozen disciples in John 6 represent a much bigger kingdom force than the five thousand who came for a free meal." - Jared C. Wilson

Gratitude keeps grace feeling fresh in your heart.

"Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His willingness." - Richard Trench

Worthy is the lamb who was slain.

Paul spent so much time in his epistles helping the churches combat false teaching with the truth of the Gospel. This should be interesting...

If you want to make sense of the cultural moment we are living in, I highly recommend this book. It shows how we got here and where history is trending. Accessible and intriguing. Strange New World by Carl Trueman

"Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community..." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Creating your own truth might feel like freedom but it becomes a crushing burden to sustain.

Reflections on leading The Movement Church this last year! What a ride! christopherstites.blog/thoughts/2022/…

This Sunday I taught through what the Bible says about LGBTQ and why it comes to the conclusions it does. Something worth thinking through as a follower of Jesus living in this culture. youtu.be/EZjzQJZ-uTc

“So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, moved by it to praise and thanks.” - #Tolkien

We’re starting a new teaching series this Sunday working through the false expectations we have of the church compared with the Gospel vision for the true community that Jesus calls us to. This is for everyone who has had unmet expectations.

STEPH 👀

Give the man his trophy and his ring.

"What can the devil do more than slay us? What after that?" - Martin Luther

God will often use the very thing that wounded us to bring us healing.