by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 25, 2013 | Purpose, Sermons, Uncategorized
Every generation seems to ask some of the same questions. Why am I here? Where am I going? What’s my purpose? Where am I? Does my life matter? I remember my senior year of college clearly. I’d spent four years of my life answering my professor’s questions. Now there... by Teresa Shields Parker | Aug 19, 2013 | Sermons, Uncategorized
What’s the soundtrack of your life? What influences you every day? In college, the soundtrack would have included Rod Stewart. Today it’s Chris Tomlin. Quite a difference a few years will make. In college (which was before Chris was even born) I loved Rod... by Teresa Shields Parker | May 27, 2013 | Family, Sermons, True Stories, Uncategorized
Four-year-old Isa Renteria jumps into her Daddy’s arms, gives him a kiss and then hops down to run and play with her little brother, Dom. It doesn’t seem out of the ordinary to anyone looking on, but to Jason and Sarah Reterina, it is a God-given miracle. Isa’s birth... by Teresa Shields Parker | May 19, 2013 | Sermons
“Fight nice,” is something my Dad used to always say. He said in a teasing manner. Many times it would be when we’d be play fighting, tickling or wrestling. And then we’d jump on him. Of course we weren’t fighting, really. His intent was to remind us that even when... by Teresa Shields Parker | May 12, 2013 | Sermons, Uncategorized
Remember Martha, one of the first workaholic women? It seemed Jesus berated her*. All she was doing was asking him to tell her lazy sister, Mary, to get up and help her. Fight cultural expectations vs. God’s desires. Martha was fulfilling the culturally expected... by Teresa Shields Parker | May 5, 2013 | Sermons
“God is in the restoration business. Nehemiah was just a subcontractor. He calls you and I to do the same. What walls are you rebuilding?” Jeremy Risner, said Sunday morning, May 5, at Christian Chapel, Columbia. Sunday evening Risner was elected as the...