A Week Called Holy
I doubt that those first disciples would have used the word “holy” to describe the final week of Jesus’ earthly life. In seven brief days the disciples ex...
Holy Ambition: CBF’s General Assembly
This week, twenty First on Fifth folks traveled to Atlanta for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's General Assembly, the annual gathering of more than 1000 Coo...
A Look Back on Pentecost Sunday
On Sunday, we’ll slip into the pews, sing the hymns of faith and tell the stories of Jesus, hear Word proclaimed and good news shared. Expected, you might say...
What do we do now?
What do we do now? Perhaps that was a question of the first disciples as they left the upper room on that first Pentecost Sunday. They had witnessed...
Love Leads to the Light
Maundy Thursday by Malcolm Guite Here is the source of every sacrament,The all-transforming presence of the Lord,Replenishing our every elementRemaking us in hi...
I Was Glad
As we find ourselves just over a week before celebrating the 100th anniversary of our beloved sanctuary, I am reminded of the central place of this sacred space...
Reborn Again
Dear Beloved Community, Each year that I have had the honor to serve as your pastor, we have experienced full and mighty Pentecost weekends. I recounted that i...