Sunday, April 12 John 20:15 “Woman, why are you crying?” This morning, we meet Mary Magdalene all alone near Jesus’ tomb after the departure of Peter and John, who have come to investigate her report that the tomb is empty. It is still dark, and...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Saturday
Saturday, April 11 Luke 23:46 “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” The last recorded words that Jesus speaks are short but full of depth. The phrase echoes verse 5 of Psalm 31, a passage full of cries to God for deliverance and trust...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Good Friday
Friday, April 10 John 19: 30 “It is Finished” The thing that is “finished” here, I think, is not just the execution of Jesus. The cross is the humble ending to life well lived. We can over focus on the dramatic events of Holy Week to the...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Maundy Thursday
Thursday, April 9 John 19: 28-29 “I thirst.” It’s Maundy Thursday, and usually we gather for a deeply meaningful service, punctuated by the more foreboding feeling it creates; a sort of deeply felt disturbance rather than a feeling of inner...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Wednesday
Wednesday, April 8 Matthew 27:46 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?” Jesus’ painful words here are a quote from Psalm 22, a Psalm of lament. To my knowledge, there aren’t many worship songs or sermons that come from Psalms of...
Read moreWeekly Pastoral Note – April 7
Dear Yates Family – If you do not make it all the way to the end of this letter, I begin with an invitation. Join us for an online prayer service on Maundy Thursday evening, April 9, at 7:00 PM. To participate, follow this link...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Tuesday
Tuesday, April 7 John 19: 26-27 “Woman, behold your son.” “What would it be like if I told you I saw three of them?” Those are the words I remember the doctor speaking to us the day we found out we were having triplets. Everything changed in...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Monday
Monday, April 6 Luke 23:32-43 “Today you will be with me in paradise.” The story of the two criminals crucified with Christ may be one that is familiar but it is full of details. The two criminals were being crucified alongside Christ, which...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Palm Sunday
Luke 23:32-34 “Father, Forgive Them” The first sentence from the cross is a prayer, and it is at the cross that Jesus teaches us to pray. He doesn’t begin his words from the cross addressing the disciples, the religious leaders, the soldiers, the...
Read morePastoral Note – March 31
Dear Yates Family, I am praying for you every day. As I pray for you this week, I do it recognizing that our time as a scattered church and disparate community will last longer than we first imagined. My prayer this week is for that often...
Read morePastoral Note – March 24
Dear Yates Family, I hope this letter finds each of you safe and at home as we walk together and support one another through all the pandemic precautions of our time. I’m praying for you and our church, that we would truly be that “growing...
Read moreCoronavirus: A Pastoral Letter from Christopher Ingram
March 13, 2020 Dear Yates Family, Who among us on Monday thought that by Friday we would be confronted with so many decisions, precautions and protocols to reduce the transmission of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus? Yet, because of the facts before...
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