Author: Shannon Greer
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Isaac
Disclaimer: This post is nearly three times longer than my typical posts. I’ve had several folks reach out and ask how we are doing, and haven’t really had the words to express. I know people everywhere are having to deal with the challenges of their present reality in their own unique way. Countless others have…
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Basic Church 101 -“Community”
I know this whole COVID – 19 thing is crazy and causing a lot of unsettledness in our world. The effect of this virus has reached every part of our society including the doors of the Church. Now, just about every community of faith is faced with decisions concerning how, when, & where they will…
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Daniel Fast 2020 // Day 1
For some it’s become “the thing to do” at the beginning of the year. I hesitate to make a big deal about it because I don’t want to be just another contributor to just another Christian fad. But I’ve done this enough years to know that these 21 days of prayer and fasting are significant…
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What’s Your One Word?
I’ve started the past two years by leaning into a single word for the year. No resolutions. No impossible goals. Just a single word around which I have centered my life. I haven’t randomly picked these words, but I’ve diligently asked God to give me one single word for the year, and without fail, for…
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Potential.
Happy New Year! I love New Years Day. It is truly a day of all things new. I am mindful today that so much potential is locked up inside the next 365 days, and I want to do everything that I can to discover each day’s potential in 2020. I want to make every day…
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Nine
Nine. I’m sure there is some sort of great spiritual significance to the number nine. But this weekend the number nine is significant because it was that many years ago that RiverChurch Chattanooga officially launched. This weekend always brings a great deal of reflection for me, every year. Lots of memories. Lots of mountain tops.…
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Jacob
Every once in a while in your lifetime, God brings someone into your world that just fits. They get you. You get them, and you walk together for as long as He leads you down the same path. For nearly two and a half years I have been blessed with such a person at…
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What Was I Thinking?
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. In years past during the Christmas season, I’ve played the part of Joseph, a shepherd, a wise man. I’ve been the Little Drummer Boy, narrated a Christmas musical, and played an adult modern version of Joseph, singing “Now I’m a Believer,” by the Monkeys. I’ve…
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Scared
So I shared a great memory with my son this past week. He was playing in his end of season baseball tournament, and this season I’ve had the opportunity to hang out in the dug out with the team. Jay’s team has a head coach and two assistants, and on this particular night the two…
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Seven Years
I’ve told the story a thousand times about a brief conversation I had with my wife, as we were making plans to move to Chattanooga to plant a church almost 10 years ago. It went something like this: Me: Wouldn’t it be cool to one day have a church AND a coffee shop downtown Chattanooga?…