Stories

Families Serving Together

Families Serving Together

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve gotten on parenting is to do life with my children. It’s so easy to drop them off at a practice or take th...

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Elohim: Let Heaven And Nature Sing

Elohim: Let Heaven And Nature Sing

After hiking across a dry, dusty desert, Laurice Jennings came to a green oasis. Hidden in the rocks was a spring that watered just about a 20-f...

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Story Of Hope

Story Of Hope

In the first message of The Names series, Pastor Woody shared a letter from hi...

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More Than Surviving The Holidays

More Than Surviving The Holidays

The first Thanksgiving can be the hardest. A Christmas with no kids on Christmas Day can feel especially lonely.

That’s why 2 MIN READ

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The Names: Who God Is And What That Means For Us

You probably hear the name of God used pretty often out in your everyday life. And not always in a good way. On the other hand, orthodox Jews do...

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Inside: Celebrate Recovery

Inside: Celebrate Recovery

Have you ever thought about checking out Celebrate Recovery , but you just wer...

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Inside: Check-In

Inside: Check-In

Steve Bowman was serving on the Greeting Team when he was asked to take a visiting family to a Kids Community room.

Steve and his wife, ...

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Spoiler Alert: You May Need To Flee

Spoiler Alert: You May Need To Flee

It was sort of a filler, the kind of water-cooler conversation piece news organizations put between their bigger stories.

But it capture...

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Inside: Grounds Crew

Inside: Grounds Crew

Michial Neal had been coming to Blue Ridge about a year and was serving in the “garden ministry” when the woman heading it up found out she need...

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Inside: Journey

Inside: Journey

Two Journey-goers recently shared their perspective on what this group has meant to them:

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Mom, Dad, You're Number One - And Two!

Mom, Dad, You're Number One - And Two!

Looking back on a pretty normal and comfortable childhood, I recall being taken by my parents to my church in Richmond. We attended weekly, and ...

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Inside: DivorceCare

Inside: DivorceCare

Mandy Guerin came to DivorceCare so her son could be part of 3 MIN READ

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