The Sermon on the Mount “By all means, drink deep of the fountains that are given to you in the Sermon on the Mount, but then you will have to …
Why the Sermon on the Mount?
Ask the average Joe or Jane on the street about what they are doing for Lent, and they will probably say something like giving up chocolate or alcohol or something …
Ash Wednesday
Welcome to our 2024 Lenten Devotional meditations. For the 40 days of Lent (not counting Sundays) you will find a devotional a day displayed on this website homepage. Each day’s …
28 Days of Waiting
November 27 is the first day of Advent, and it concludes on December 24. Advent means “the coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of …
Christian Dominionism
Okay. This blog is about theology and it’s importance. Theology is ” the study of religious faith, practice, and experience especially the study of God and of God’s relation to the …
LifeSpring Small Group
LifeSpring had a small group before she began meeting as a church. Over the 16 years of LifeSpring’s existence, our small group experience has been of greatest value to the …
Welcome Our New Worship Leader
LifeSpring Church is pleased to welcome Joel Scott Shade to our team. Joel is our new worship leader, taking over from Rich Barnes who served LifeSpring admirably for about 15 …
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I’m a relative newcomer to the Lectionary. I first became acquainted with it in the 80’s and have experimented with it, now for over 40 years. The Lectionary is dominated …
Revelation Resources
The book of Revelation is a fraught book. For many generations it has been often approached as a manual for deciphering the future date of Christ’s return. 666 has been …
Conspiracy Theories and the Golden Calf
I fear that the “conspiracy theory” is with us to stay. I know that conspiracy theories have always been with us, but the current iteration is frightening beyond words. Like …
You Have Been Warned!
(RNS) — It didn’t take long for some preachers to start telling us why God caused the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas to happen. Pat Robertson led the way, …
Is God Causing Everything?
Philosophy is an important part of “doing” theology. How so? A good way to test beliefs is by applying good philosophical thinking to the question. For example, a person may …