Updates – Yates Baptist Church

Seven Ways to Care For Your Soul

As summer makes its relentless way to us in June, and the longest day sits just ahead on the calendar, […]

Karl Barth, in a 1962 lecture that most people have not read and everyone should, said this: “The goal of

Language Holds Memory Some years ago, a rabbi friend invited me to celebrate Passover with her and her family at

They were not full of hope when they arrived. They expected a sealed stone. Resurrection finds us mid-errand, while we are still carrying spices.

The disciples sat in a stillness that was anything but calm. As far as they could tell, darkness had won. They didn’t know the war was over.

At noon the sky goes dark. From the cross comes a cry that has no bottom. The Father who has never once failed to hear, hears it.

He knows what Judas is about to do. He knows Peter will deny him. And he gets up and washes their feet anyway.

One person gives everything. One person calculates the exchange rate. Both are responding to the same Jesus. What explains the difference?

Many important things happen before most people are awake, and we take them for granted because we weren’t there for

The chief priests expected a military messiah. God saw a deeper problem. Agreeing with his diagnosis is the hardest thing he asks of us.

The system had been running long enough that nobody needed to remember who it was actually for. C. S. Lewis called it the God who had flown.

He doesn’t wait for us to get our theology right before he rides in. The crowd’s answer was still forming. He came anyway.

Nobody writes songs about the middle of a story. The beginning has momentum and the ending has resolution, but the

January had other plans. Ice on the sidewalks. Forecasts that changed by the hour. School closings that required a flowchart.

Sunday, December 28, marked a significant transition for Yates that reaches beyond our ministry team into something generational. Mackenzie Smith,