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NOTE: Ryan Geyer has served as a Home Groups minister at The Village for the last two years, overseeing groups in the Fort Worth area. He will be transitioning off staff this month. This blog post was adapted from his resignation letter. The Village has been home for my wife, Emily, and me since before we got married and I came on staff as a Home Groups minister. The first Home Group we joined ...
Welcome to summer! For many of you, the next few months will be filled with travel, adventure and increased opportunities to spend time together as a family. As you begin to think about and plan how you will spend the next few months, we’d like to present you with the Summer Family Activity Book. It is a family resource that gives you ideas on how to be intentional with the time you spend ...
It is illegal in some cities to walk down the street while carrying a pickle in your back pocket. Certain states prohibit dancing by anyone dressed as a pirate. Mulch cannot be sold in some counties if intended for human consumption. All of the above is fictional (as far as I know), but each example resembles the various archaic laws that appear in our inboxes from time to time through the ...
Israel wanted a king like the surrounding nations. God gave them one with a warning: “You won’t like him.” Samuel reported to Israel God’s words and said the king “will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your ...
Psalm 22 prophetically portrays the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, the day Christians remember the Suffering Servant who became a curse for us (Gal. 3:13-14). It conveys the agonizing death of the Christ more than a thousand years before it actually occurred on Calvary.
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Prov. 13:12). This proverb incisively captures the longing to see a promise fulfilled. In Acts 2, Peter recalls God promising David to one day raise up one of his offspring to be king of an everlasting kingdom (2 Sam. 7:1-17). David never saw this promise realized, but he told of it. David was not merely a ...
This race we’re running is tiring. In hunting our happiness and fulfillment, we’ve become the hunted. Our desire for approval and love – this disconnect in our souls – both promises and denies rest. We are trapped in a self-defeating cycle, trying to catch happiness at the expense of joy. As believers, Jesus is our identity – our daily footing and acceptance before God. Our hope in ...
In walking with people bogged down by sin, I have noticed a consistent trend: an independence from God. This observation is further enforced in Scripture. Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 1:1-32, John 15:1-27 and countless other texts point toward the realities that exist when man operates outside of God. To sum this behavior up in one word, you could call it “pride,” but there are other factors at ...