by Mike Burke | 0 comments
“God can't give us happiness & peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S.Lewis
I encourage you all to keep this in mind daily, and specifically as you prepare for the season of Lent. All happiness we experience is from God, and as we grow closer to Him, we learn more about what happiness actually means. As I have been hearing second-hand highlights from the Verge conference this past weekend, one struck me more than the ... ... Read more »
by Mike Burke | 0 comments
Soma will be participating with Operation: F.A.S.T during the season of Lent, in an effort to draw our attention away from temptations and towards both God and the poor. Recognizing, that we've asked a lot of our members lately, we are not asking for money, but rather a return to the spiritual discipline of fasting, in order to better hear God and what he says about our abundance, and more importantly the poor. Beginning Monday the 8th, we will be feature a daily blog post on the Soma website ... ... Read more »
by Jacob Vanhorn | 0 comments
We are excited to celebrate a new Soma Group starting tonight off South Congress! We are excited because it brings more opportunities for deeper relationships with God and one another, more renewal, stronger families & marriages and growth in mission.
Soma Groups are our primary places of community, where we learn from one another, serve one another, grow together and join together in renewing people we know and the local communities we live in. With this new group starting ... ... Read more »
by James Evans
I thought it would be great to discuss how we can all order our lives around a lifestyle of worship. God calls us all to worship Him at all times in the good and the bad, but all to often we have to get to one extreme or the other for worship to happen. ...Read more
by Adam Wilder
When I first became a Christian, I was taught that living a missional life consisted of people serving as missionaries overseas in a third world country sharing the gospel. Sure, I was taught to share the gospel and be a light to my friends and co-workers, but the real people who live on a mission were those missionaries overseas sharing the gospel and dying for Christ, not me...Read more
by Jacob Vanhorn
Our lives are made up of stories, some of them true, some of them false. They inform how we think, live and make decisions. As Christians, the gospel is not just a story of conversion, but a story that guides how we think, live and make decisions. Living like we believe the story of God is true leads to more abundant life....Read more
People
Being made after the image of God means that each person is to be viewed and treated as having inherent dignity and that we should seek to bring restoration to broken and hurting people.
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Communities
We exist in community. Everyone of us. Take a look around and it
isn't difficult to see both the beauty of our communities as well as
the disparity and brokenness in our communities. We desire to
celebrate the beauty and to bring restoration to the brokenness and
equity to those who are in cycles of violence, poverty and a lack of
education.
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Message
The message of Jesus Christ is the good news that His life, death and resurrection have purchased for us reconcilation between man and God, between man and man and it brings restoration to the world. This news is called the gospel.
The gospel is necessary for those who are far from God as well as for those who profess the Christ. We all need the same thing. The gospel.
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