So, what ya reading?
Remember the phrase “Garbage in, garbage out”? What you put into your body has a consequence. Eat healthily, and you will be healthy. Eat unhealthily, and you will be unhealthy. This applies to our inner world, too, our minds, our hearts, our emotions. So it is crucial to pay attention to what you are watching, reading, and listening to. If it is garbage - lies, [...]
The Mission and the Power of the Unstoppable Church
By Tim Peace In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking [...]
How To Be Intentional Amid Chaos
If I were to poll people about which holiday is their favorite, I suspect that most would answer Thanksgiving or Christmas. Both of these holidays have a season that leads up to them. Thanksgiving’s season is full of trips to the pumpkin patch, apple picking, cider, maybe even a little bit, or a lot of pumpkin spice everything. Thanksgiving lends itself to time with extended [...]
Be a Peacemaker
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” - Matthew 5:9 NIV I have had something lying heavily on my heart. There is so much strife in our world right now. It seems everyone is at each other’s throats. When we should be pulling together to face our significant challenges, we are pulling apart. There is strife in marriages. There is [...]
On Being Open…
By Tim Peace We’ve been having fun with parables during our message series, Aha! Jesus’ Stories for Change, our Build: Seminars series on the parables, and our Small Group devotional study on the parables. It’s been Parable Central here at Mount Carmel! To encourage you to continue in your personal and group study of the parables, I wanted to use a parable as a source [...]
Get to Know Me | Mount Carmel’s New Youth Minister David Rimarski
Hello Mount Carmel family! My name is David Rimarski, and I am the new Student Minister on staff. My family and I are so excited to be here all the way from the little town of Pinetown, North Carolina, where I was the student minister serving at Athens Chapel Church of Christ in Bath. I have served at Athens Chapel Church for the past four [...]