In the midst of this emotional year, we have been holding on to our faithful God!  We have been praying!  We have been praying for you. We have been praying for our first responders, our healthcare professionals, our essential workers, our educators and students, our grandparents, parents and kids, our missionaries, our ministries, our country. We have loved hearing how…

Father, use us to build a reproducing church among an unreached people by 2030.  This is one of the Breakthrough Prayers we have been praying together since the start of the year. For 2020 in particular, we have been asking the Lord to lead us to the unreached people group that will be our focus for the next decade.  How…

I woke up this morning with an old southern spiritual on my mind:  Oh, my loving brother, when the world's on fire Don't you want God's bosom to be your pillow Tide me over in the Rock of Ages Rock of Ages cleft for me Oh, my loving sinner, when the world's on fire Don't you want God's bosom to…

   

Dear Church of the Open Door Family, For the next few months we are going on an exciting journey. We're beginning a new series - Revive Us! We're going to start with Revive Us: Confession. I know the very word "confession" elicits all kinds of emotions, thoughts and reactions. It certainly has done that in me in the months that I've been pondering the…

"It is through the regular and personal intake of the Word of God that we come to know God better. It is through allowing His truth to sink deep into our heart and mind that we find peace in our soul. As we experience God's transforming Word, His presence and His peace follow closely. Take a moment and read the following passages.…

It’s not every day that we know someone celebrating a 100th birthday. And it’s not every day that the person has been a longtime member of our church family. And it's definitely not every day when that person traces his journey of faith to the "Jesus Saves" sign from Church of the Open Door's downtown years. This month we get to mark all…

It’s so easy to be steamrolled by emotions of uncertainty, anxiety, anger and frustration. No one on this planet has escaped the concerns of today. There are no quick fixes for the chaos we are feeling. But friends, we serve a faithful God who is walking with us in all of this! Here are 5 simple ways to thrive during this…

On a prayer walk around my neighborhood on a Sunday morning during our lockdown, I was praying our 2020 Breakthrough Prayer #3: Father, use us to build a reproducing church among an unreached people group by 2030.  I was also praying this specific prayer for 2020: Father, lead us to the people group You have for us to invest in…

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and…