At Countryside, we tend to say that we know and love a God who gets us, who entered the human story, embodied what it means to experience the breadth of […]
Then we followed the “little girl,” teenaged Mary. As if on reality TV, we put a camera in her face; beside her pillow, in the quiet of her mind, in […]
One of my favorite authors and teachers, Barbara Brown Taylor, writes in her book “Learning to Walk in the Dark because God often Shows up at Night,” about her experiences […]
Experience the warmth of the season with our enchanting Candlelight Services on Christmas Eve at 5 & 10 p.m. Bring your loved ones and immerse yourself in the spirit of […]
Every year during this time, on this particular Sunday, we lift God’s peace as a longing in our lives, a desperate plea on behalf of a hurting world seeking the […]
The former Dean at both Wake Forest Divinity and Candler School of Theology, the late Dr. Gail O’Day, explained in a lecture that “Advent is a season in which time […]
Prayer isn’t a message scribbled on a note, jammed into a bottle, and tossed into the sea in hopes it will wash up someday on God’s shoreline. Prayer is communication […]
In the days immediately following the crucifixion and the subsequent resurrection, Jesus went around reconnecting with his immediate close-knit group of followers. They had blown like the wind as they […]
To all the believers at Countryside Community Church: Grace to you, and peace and comfort, to all those who have lost someone they love. I write in order to offer […]
A cardinal principle of historical criticism of Scripture is something called “the principle of dissimilarity.” It is expressed in different ways but basically it means that the more strange, the […]
