I bleed orange and brown. I am a Cleveland Browns fan. Not a casual, “oh I’ll watch if they’re doing well this year” kind of fan. The real kind. The kind who has an orange and brown Christmas tree. Every December, while the rest of the world hangs garland and silver baubles, I trim a
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In 2021, youth pastors from four Charis churches came together to start a camp experience just for middle schoolers. The first year of Ignite Middle School Camp, 80 students from Grace Polaris Church, Bellefontaine Grace Church, Marysville Grace Church, and Movement Church spent a week together at Camp Cotubic learning what it means to ignite
For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.Colossians 1:16,17 Have you ever had a verse that you have read a dozen times, but one day it
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Each year, Momentum Ministry Partners names a Church of the Year to recognize a local church that is faithfully serving its people, its community, and the broader mission of the Gospel. It is an honor given carefully, not casually. Marysville Grace Church in Marysville, Ohio, who was the recipient in the summer of 2025, reflects
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Somewhere along the way, most of us picked up the wrong measuring stick. You know the one. It measures attendance against attendance, reach against reach, growth against growth. It shows up on Sunday afternoons when your soul is already tender, and it whispers that the work isn’t quite enough. That you’re a little behind. That
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God delights in you, and your greatest delight is found in Him. As this season of Charis Women’s DELIGHTED Conferences concludes, there is much to celebrate and be thankful for. More than 750 women were gathered across these six events where intentional space was created for connection, encouragement, and practical, faith-filled teaching for everyday life.
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What do you get when you put two dozen Charis Fellowship pastors’ wives from four different generations together in a cabin for an entire weekend? Exceedingly and abundantly more than I asked or imagined. When receiving the baton as the Director of THRIVE Pastors’ Wives Network a few years ago, one of my biggest dreams
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Let’s be honest — preaching can feel like planting seeds in a windstorm. You spend hours in prayer and preparation. You labor over every word, every illustration, every point of application. Sunday comes and you deliver the message God laid on your heart. And by the time you hit the parking lot, someone’s asking if
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“To inspire, challenge, and equip the church to share the Gospel with the lost from here to the nations.” This is the goal of Calvert Grace Community Church’s annual outreach conference. Calvert Grace Church, located in Owings, Md., strives to have a robust missions culture. While they regularly pray for their missionaries and hear testimonies of their work during Sunday services, their outreach conference
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Behold your King. That is what Pontius Pilate said when he brought Jesus before the crowd. The Roman governor gestures toward a battered man standing beside him—face swollen, back torn open by whips, a crown of thorns driven into His head—and he says with a hint of scorn, “Behold your King.” Pilate means it as
