Stories

One of the first commands we ever see Jesus give to his future disciples is, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” He didn’t tell them...

As a new season of Jump Up approaches, I hear parents begin to talk more about their sweet elementary child moving into the sometimes-scary terr...

When I was working on my dissertation many years ago, I wanted to answer the question, “What turns you off about church?”

I talked to a ...

My friend Getachew Dembi fled the brutal regime of the Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia in the 1980s. Getachew forever left be...

When Crash began its “Free Speech” series a couple of months ago, Sam Coleman didn’t think it would pe...

Some people have a come-to-Jesus moment. I have a come-back-to-Jesus moment.

I was incredibly blessed to be born to loving parents of fa...

In 2002, David and Debbie O’Brien began Celebrate Recovery at Blue Ridge. As they prepare for the 15th an...

When Todd and John first started getting together outside of Sunday mornings to hold a weekly Bible study for Safety Team servers, they were som...

My first mission trip was to Nicaragua in 2011. As a new Christ follower, I'm not sure why I went. I had never desired to go on a mission tr...

David Michon had been serving at Blue Ridge three years with the worship team when Worship Pastor Todd Foster talked to him about leading the te...

Cody and Brittany McCune were on their way home from work when they got a call from their neighbor saying, “Everything is gone.” On that day, Fe...

Leprosy.

Have you ever seen someone with leprosy? Most lepers have malformation of their fingers, toes and face. When you see someone wh...