“While we were in our mother's womb, you have already ordained our days before us (paraphrase of Psalm 139).”
Pastor Leslie teaches that God often meets us in ordinary life through people and circumstances — especially through community and hospitality — and warns that comparison, living in the past, hurry, and self-sufficiency can make us miss God. Using the Shunammite woman's encounter with the prophet as the central example, she explains that God names and meets deep longings (sometimes miraculously and despite our unbelief) and calls listeners to name their needs, return to community, and trust God's timing.
“Your eyes saw my unformed body; fearfully and wonderfully made; knit together in my mother's womb.”
A Mother's Day worship service celebrating mothers as God's masterpieces (Imago Dei), emphasizing their identity, calling, and capacity, with worship, prayers, pastoral encouragement, and church announcements.
“You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your eyes saw my unformed body.”
Pastor Josh Howerton responds to Texas Rep. James Talarico’s public theological and political claims, arguing Talarico misrepresents Scripture on abortion, sexuality, marriage, and gender. Howerton distinguishes between genuine seekers and ideological infiltrators, asserts politics have become spiritual, defends the biblical view that life begins in the womb and that marriage is one man/one woman, contrasts biblical justice (equal weights and measures) with progressive group-based justice (equal outcomes), explains Kuyperian sphere sovereignty for charity and the role of church/family versus the state, and warns against false teachers who pander to itching ears.
