Nehemiah 3—God Renews His People By Inviting Them Into The Work

January 23, 2022 Nate Holdridge

Sunday Teaching: Nehemiah 3—God Renews His People By Inviting Them Into The Work

A Guide For The Climb - Chapter 14 - War for Unity (Psalm 133)

August 13, 2020 Nate Holdridge

“The Bible has the answers,” they say. Knowing how messed up life and the world and relationships can be, you decide to read it. Perhaps, you think, you will find out what family and relationships and love are supposed to look like. (13 Minutes/3500 Words)

6 Lessons I've Learned About Small Group Ministry

March 18, 2020 Nate Holdridge

6 lessons.jpg — 6 Lessons I've Learned About Small Group Ministry

Having pastored a church without small groups, and now having pastored a church where always at least half of the congregation is in a small group, I can tell you the latter is preferable. People need to know each other. People need to interact with healthy Christians. People need community. (7 Minutes/1800 Words)

Pastor Absalom (2 Samuel 15:6)

December 3, 2018 Nate Holdridge

It didn’t take much. A chariot, some fanboys, and a daily ploy to convince the people of Israel he was more available than David, and Absalom stole the hearts of the people. Some cunning, some persistence, and they were in his pocket. (200 Words / 2 Minutes)

Walk In Your Father’s Love, part 2 (Ephesians 5:3-6)

November 23, 2018 Nate Holdridge

Paul has just instructed his readers to imitate the love of God as demonstrated in the sacrificial cross of Christ (Ephesians 5:1-2). Our love is to be one which lays aside the self and lives for the betterment of others. It might seem odd, then, to hear Paul immediately move into an exhortation to flee sexual immorality, sexual impurity, and sexual covetousness. How is this an imitation of the love of God? (800 Words / 4 Minutes)

Believe In The Church's Unbreakable Oneness (Ephesians 4:4-6)

September 21, 2018 Nate Holdridge

Paul dreamed of the church. In so doing, he introduced a beautiful truth: the universal church is one because the Triune God is one. (3 Minutes / 500 Words)

United To One Another — We Were Outside God’s Program (Ephesians 2:11-12)

May 31, 2018 Nate Holdridge

Paul went on to detail three disadvantages the nations (the non-Jewish world) were under before Christ came and died on His cross. He attached an exhortation to these disadvantages — remember them. He desired the grafted in Gentile believers in every generation of the church to recall the divide, the lostness, they were previously under.

3 Minutes / 500 Words