How You Can Live for Jesus While At ECU
Greenville is a small city…and a large college town. As students, for the most part, you have left for the summer…but you’ll be back. You guys always come back. But when you come back (or even while you’re here for summer session)…how will you live? If you claim the name of Christ, you should live [...]
How to Prepare to Gather as the Church
At Harmony, the ministry of the Scriptures is central to everything we do…particularly in our Sunday morning gatherings. Sunday mornings are our chance to come together in solidarity, show our city that we worship a risen Christ and are subservient to His word. For the majority of people, even ourselves at times, church is not [...]
Marks of Mature Masculinity
Al Mohler recently listed 13 marks of mature masculinity …check the whole article for explanations. 1. Spiritual maturity sufficient to lead a wife and children. 2. Personal maturity sufficient to be a responsible husband and father. 3. Economic maturity sufficient to hold an adult job and handle money. 4. Physical maturity sufficient to work and protect a [...]
Know Thy Neighbor, Part 2
Further questions from Tim Chester’s blog about knowing your neighbor. You can see the original questions here. Where? Where are the missional spaces (places and activities where you meet people)? Where do they experience community? Are their existing social networks with which we can engage or do we need to find ways of creating community [...]
Know Thy Neighbor
Jesus has called us to know our neighbor…and to know him or her well. Not just to know them, but to love them as well. It’s the Great Commandment, right? Love God, Love Your Neighbor. In fact, it’s even a requirement of pastors that they are “well thought of by outsiders” (1 Timothy 3:7). That [...]
New Songs: 03/07/10
We sang some pretty awesome reworked hymns today at Harmony Church. Two brand new and one relatively new. Here’s the lyrics (and PDFs) of the two brand-new songs if you want to use them: Rock of Ages (chord chart) Pretty awesome song. We used as an intro. Thumping bass line. Rock of ages, cleft for [...]
A Theology of Worship
Recently, partners of Harmony Church attended a luncheon in Raleigh, NC regarding worship. One particular session is important for us as a church body. The Theology of Worship notes are linked below: A Theology of Worship (PDF)
The Gospel
In this message about one of the values of Harmony Church, Pastor Derek Brown explains the Gospel, which is the spring from which everything we do as a church comes. Pastor Derek explains that if the Gospel is true, then it demands much and changes everything.
Worship Arises Out of Resurrection
This morning for devotion, I read through the story of the anointing of Jesus’ feet in John 12:1-8 and noted something interesting about the first three verses. Look and see if you pick up something interesting.
How to Study the Bible
A week ago I had the privilege of teaching a Pursuit Class (link) on the Scripture entitled “The Divine Autobiography”. The class went great (lasting 3 hours), had a great attendance for our first weeknight study, and I think that people are really reading their Bible (and understanding it!) on a regular basis now. I [...]
