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When in Our Music God is Glorified

08 Oct 2017

For this special day on which we celebrate the importance and the joy of music in worship, and we appreciate those who so ably lead us in worshipful music, we appropriately turn to the psalms. The psalms are not only the “prayer book” of humanity, they are also the “song book” of...

For God So Loved the World

01 Oct 2017

On this World Communion Sunday, in a time of great disunity between various factions, we celebrate the unity of the Church across the world. In a time when many have stopped listening to one another, but keep talking past one another, from east and west and north and south, we...

The Mission at Our Doorstep

18 Sep 2017

Most of you have probably noticed by now that our theme for the 2017-18 program year uses the same language as our Capital Campaign emphasis – Wide Open Doors. We began exploring our Wide Open Doors theme in worship on Rally Day, August 20. In Alex Rogers’s sermon, she...

The Doors are Open for Praise

10 Sep 2017

In the summer of 1993, I participated in my very first mission trip, the first of what is now somewhere around 25 or so. I journeyed with 50 or 60 youth from Greenville and Spartanburg, SC to Homestead, Florida, just south of Miami. Homestead was recovering from Hurricane Andrew,...

Stretching With Springs, or Building With Bricks?

04 Sep 2017

Imagine you are a disciple of Jesus, just a few years after the resurrection of Christ. Now imagine a powerful Jew named Saul out breathing threats and murder towards disciples of Christ. What would you do? Would you invite him over for dinner? Better yet, would you go and seek...

Christian Hospitality Opens Doors

27 Aug 2017

Last Sunday, Rev. Alex Rogers kicked off Rally Day by introducing our theme for the year, Wide Open Doors. As Alex described in her sermon, opening wide the doors of our hearts to God and to others involves great opportunity, yet also involves some measure of fear and...

A Good Place to Start

21 Aug 2017

Here we are at the beginning of a new program year in the life of Decatur Presbyterian Church. School has been in session for a few weeks now. For those of us who do not live by the school calendar, things may seem very much the same. But in the rhythm of our community, today is...

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