Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
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Shades Valley Community Church is a welcoming community affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America. Although we do have various ministries to our congregation and the larger communities of Homewood and Birmingham, Alabama, we are not a program driven church. Our mission is to Glorifying God by loving him, loving others and making disciples among all peoples.
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
*This will be the final Lenten devotional of 2020. I want to thank all our devotional authors who have helped me keep these going during this difficult season: Brad Brown, John Kegley Allison Davis, Emily Knight, and Dallas Knight. To Shades, I encourage you to keep on reading Scripture daily that you may find ever-increasing joy in the glory of God. Grace and Peace, Pastor Jonathan
Today’s devotional is authored by Jonathan Haefs
Revelation 19:11-21 (click here to read the entire passage) Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Todays Devotional is authored by Brad Brown
Jude 1:24–25
[24] Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, [25] to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Charles Taylor in his book “Our secular age” helpfully gives words to realities that we experience in our culture but cant always find the words to name. He notes that in our time it’s not so much that people are anti-religion (although we do see that). Ra ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Todays devotional is authored by Brad Brown
2 Peter 1:16–18
[16] For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. [17] For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” [18] we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. (ESV)
Reflection
Is there really a God? Is the Christian faith true in what it claims? Was Jesus real ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Today’s devotional is authored by Jonathan Haefs
1 Peter 1:3-9 (click here to read the entire passage) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
*For those who were unable to participate in yesterday’s livestream, here is the promised youtube link: click here
Todays devotion is authored by Allison Davis
1 Timothy 3:16:
“Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.”
Reflection:
Is anyone else aching for Easter?
I recently saw a Facebook post that said: “This is the Lentiest Lent I have ever Lented.”
I think we can agree.
While we can and should celebrat ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Joy in All Philippians 4:10-20 (click here to read the entire passage) On Sundays during Lent, there will not be an email devotional because a sermon will actually be preached on the passage for that day. Today’s sermon has been posted and may be found by searching for “Shades Valley Community Church” in your podcast app or by simply clicking here.
If you were unable to participate in the livestream a replay will be available tomorrow. A link will be sent out with tomorrow’s devotional.
*All previous devotionals may be found at www.thejoyofglory.com *The complete SVCC Lenten reading guide is ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Today’s devotional is authored by Brad Brown
Ephesians 1:3-4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Reflection Ephesians 1:3-14 is a feast for the believer’s hungry soul. It speaks to the only thing that ultimately matters for the church in life and in death. That is…You and I belong to Jesus Christ.
Marcus Peter Johnson beautifully articulates the blessing or the gifts given t ..read more
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4y ago
This weeks Devotional is authored by John Kegley
Galatians 6:7-10
“7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.”
Sin is often so deceitful not because it tricks us into believing compl ..read more
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4y ago
Todays devotional is authored by Dallas Knight
2 Corinthians 8:9
“For you know the grace that was shown by our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich he became poor for your sake, so that by his poverty you might become rich.”
Reflection
During the Lenten season, we are encouraged to fast and abstain from pleasures in our lives in order to help us better understand the much greater sacrifice of Christ. As we long for these good things it helps us long for and be grateful for the greatest good, Christ, and his atoning sacrifice.
As I’m sure many of you have already pondered, it is quit ..read more
Shades Valley Community Church – Pastor’s Blog
4y ago
Today’s devotional is authored by Emily Knight
Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Reflection How are we supposed to worship?
That’s one of many questions that flew across my mind when everything started shutting down. As classes transitioned to online instruction and my employers started scrambling to figure out a plan, I knew everything we called “normal” about our routines was about to change, and church would certainly be one of them.
And I think ..read more