It was the evening of the PSHS all night Senior Class Party of 1984. Kevin Gessell played the guitar. Me and three other friends provided the vocals and in front of the entire senior class we made our singing debut. Our selection for the evening was a then popular song by Kenny Rog...
How marvelous are the works of our God. We’ve seen that this week in the life of the SPBC. It is such a delight to see God’s vision for the church being lived out in so many ways. Our teens spent a week Connecting 2 the World in mission as they served the homeless of D.C. in the na...
What a great time we all had on our annual SPBC Connect 2 Others Vacation last week. This year’s destination was Williamsburg, VA. On the grounds of the Governor’s Palace in Colonial Williamsburg is a “living history” smokehouse. In December the staff smoked the meat th...
“Country Roads, take me home to the place where I belong!” You would be hard pressed to find a resident of the state of West Virginia that isn’t moved by these words. Each time I hear this John Denver classic played I think of how blessed I am to call West Virginia my home. A coupl...
What a joy it was to celebrate our Lord with brothers and sisters all across the world at our American Baptist Biennial Meeting in Pasadena last weekend. I was so encouraged about the direction of our denomination. The worship was awesome. The Spirit was so obviously present and th...
I’m writing this blog today from Duck, NC. I’m blessed to be on vacation with my family, my mom, dad, sister and her family. It’s beautiful here today and I can’t help but reflect on the greatness of God and the many blessings that He gives us everyday. I guess you could say that I...
This past Sunday we explored the first chapter of Philippians for our third sermon in “The Joy of Fishing” series. A quick summary is that our story or testimony should point to Jesus. It’s a simple matter of pride vs. humility. Even when we share our story in Jesus pride can be a ...
We continued this past Sunday in our series “The Joy of Fishing.” While looking at Paul’s letter to the Galatians we discovered that each one of us has a salvation story to tell. While each of our stories contains Jesus as the one central commonality they are also uniquely our stories.&n...
This past Sunday we began our series “The Joy of Fishing.” We discovered that the first step in sharing our faith begins in our own heart. If we want to share Jesus with others we must share something that is real and authentic in our own lives. We must simply share from our hearts.
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On Sunday we flip flopped the services of the previous week between our Parkersburg and LifeSpring sites. Those of you who worshipped at the South Parkersburg site celebrated the Expect 2 Connect vision and those of you at the LifeSpring campus were challenged to follow God’s will with you fin...
