Many of you have noted on your membership applications that you want to improve sermon delivery. Your request is my demand! The focus of this coming Wednesday's workshop (Wed, March 25 at 11 AM ET) is sermon delivery! "Level Up Your Pulpit Presence: 8 Delivery Skills You Can Use This Sunday." 🚨 NOTE: Everyone is invited to attend! But replays are reserved for Premium and VIP Tier members. Here's the link to get it on your calendar with the video link: https://mckaycaston.tiny.us/level-up-pulpit-presence-workshop Feel free to share the link with friends, invite staff, ministry partners in networks, on social, etc.

Rejoice with us!! This Sunday, as we gather for our Particularization service, we are stepping into a moment that is both a culmination and a consecration. For six and a half years, this church plant has been a shared and sustained effort of praying, waiting, working, sweating, befriending, sharing, counseling, listening, and so much more. We have been longing to see God establish a local expression of His kingdom here in Morristown and the Lakeway area—not for our name, but for His glory alone. There is a profound, and often overlooked, beauty and goodness in the slow work of God. We live in a world that prizes the immediate and the efficient. Church planting is not that. Instead, it is a patient work of "growing down" before we "grow out." It is a realization that the Gospel is not merely the gate through which we enter the Christian life, but the very air we breathe and the path we re-learn to walk every day. To be a "particular" church is to commit ourselves to prizing the Gospel as our greatest treasure. It is the announcement that because Jesus lived the life we should have lived and died the death we deserved, we are now fully reconciled and truly free. This isn't just a theological abstract; it is a reality that aims for the heart. We do not seek to perform surface-level religious behavior, but long for God to bring a deep, interior renewal where our fears and loves are met by the mercy of Jesus. In a culture of flash, clicks and likes, our neighbors long for something authentic and genuine and the Gospel is the only solution to every heart’s greatest need. We long for this renewal to spill over into how we treat one another. We want to exemplify a friendship and hospitality that views people not as interruptions or projects, but as precious image-bearers of God. In a world marked by isolation and transient roots, we are learning to open our hearts, our lives, our homes and our tables because we were once strangers whom Christ has now welcomed all the way in. We are cultivating a life with God, together, leaning into the ancient rhythms of Scripture, prayer, baptism and the Table, knowing that the Christian life is not a private journey but a long pilgrimage best shared in the company of His people.

What is your Scripture text and keyword for this Sunday? Any of us preaching the same passage but using a different keyword?

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