"Children require us to recognize our own need for our loving Father...They may not be able to think critically, but they are able to understand a loving God."

Erik reflects on a resolution that City Church brought to our regional Presbytery calling on our denomination (the Presbyterian Church in America) and its member churches to recognize and repudiate the sin of racism, specifically as it was manifested during the Civil Rights Period of the 1950s and 60s.

“My greatest hope is that, through the music we lead, people can experience God and get a glimpse of heavenly worship.”

Tonight is the NCAA Final Four Championship Game. It culminates a month-long obsession over college basketball, and especially the madness of March with its bracket challenges, Cinderella stories, and, inevitably, coaching changes.

I knew that experiencing death in medicine would come. Like storm clouds that are forecast, approach, build, then darken prior to releasing their torrent, I expected the experience of death. Not one of us is immune to it. Personally and professionally, it approaches. I knew this. In some ways, I was prepared for it. The form and razor sharp blade it would wield, I was not prepared for.

Here are five insights can we glean from the ads during Super Bowl 50.

Some resources to help you see Jesus more clearly this Lent...

Every week at City Church we meet at the property of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, our host. GCPC’s beautiful church is located in the heart of Richmond, Virginia. It’s very big and very old, and is a freckle on the face of a city with many other houses of worship and monuments honoring the people that have made (and continue to make) our city beautiful today.

"Making the bread gives me a chance to dwell in the mystery..."

Every now and then I read an article that sticks with me--that gets stuck in my mind and haunts me (in a good way). Recently I read on Comment’s website (which, it should be added, publishes consistently excellent content) an article called “Democratizing Healthcare,” written by a Baltimore physician named Matthew Loftus.