Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

What a great week! I have been quiet this week because there was so much going on, but it’s been a great week! God is good, and I am amazed every week by what He’s doing in our church and lives. So, this morning’s service, I thought, went well. We’re obviously still trying to smooth […]

Can I just say that I love getting together to worship with our church family? I had to get that out of the way before I went on. That said, today was a great day of worship at Debra Heights! The worship team did a great job (as usual), and once we got past the […]

Five weeks ago, my family embarked on an expedition into a strange, almost surreal world. Our eldest went to preschool. Two days a week, I get to drop her off, slink away while she whimpers (and sometimes screams), and leave her behind for three hours. At the end of the three hours, the tears are […]

So, for several weeks now, I’ve been kicking around the severe lack of resources and such for small churches like ours. I’ve even pondered the notion of putting together a conference specifically geared toward churches averaging less than 100 in average attendance. Yesterday, I decided that it was time to start acting, rather than just […]

Saul had been rejected as king not once, but twice, for jumping the gun and taking shortcuts when it came to God’s will. For Samuel, this represented a grave failure. Saul had been God’s anointed. What would Samuel, Israel, and God do now? 1 Samuel 16 marks the beginning of the transition of power from […]

Application Notes Application Sometimes, I feel a bit intimidated by some people. You know the type. They wake up to a standing ovation. And when they go to bed, the whole world seems to wait for them with bated breath to rise again. Because when they’re awake, they’re always working on something profound. In fact, […]

Application Notes Application Change is never easy for anyone. Despite its inevitability, we are almost always loathe to give up the comfort – or at least the familiarity – of what we have for something new and/or unknown. Over the last two millenia, the church has been compelled to change in a number of ways […]

So this morning was one of those bittersweet days for me as a pastor. In general, things went pretty well. Attendance was remarkably good, and it was great to have a handful of familiar guests, including Nicole’s parents. Pastor Sharon’s message from Luke 8 about how Jesus would take away our shame was excellent. And […]

Application Notes Application The situation was grave. Stephen, a lowly waiter in the church, was standing before a restless crowd of religious/political officials. The charges had been made: Stephen was a proponent of destroying the temple; revolutionizing the Jewish religion; and perhaps most gravely, promoting Jesus. And now, the entire assembly was focused intently on […]

Google Spotlight is an interesting thing. In the last several weeks since its launch, I have found myself increasingly scrolling past the normal news headlines from around the world which populate Google News to this strange new section at the very bottom of the page which purports to focus on the last great stronghold for […]