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Thinking About...Christmas

Particularly in the weeks before Christmas, our embodied practices help point to the reality of an embodied God, the Word made flesh, the miracle of the incarnation. Lately I’ve been thinking about Christmas traditions within Richmond, City Church, and within our own family.

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Thinking About...Always Growing

Several months back a friend of mine told me I should come up with a vision for the upcoming year of ministry–some idea that could serve as a reference point for the staff of City Church and for the Church as a whole. Spurred by this friend’s advice, I’ve been thinking about what it means for City Church to be an always growing church.

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Mabel Jane Robins Marshall

Dear City Church Family, Yesterday afternoon, just as our church family gathered for worship, our dear friend, and the mother of a City Church member, Mabel Jane Robins Marshall passed from this life into glory. She was 85 years old.

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Thinking About...General Assembly

I spent 44 hours in Mobile, Alabama, last week, attending the 44th General Assembly of our denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. General Assembly is the annual meeting of the church where important (and sometimes tedious) work of the church is done. I left this year’s Assembly encouraged by the spirit of the denomination and hopeful about the direction our church is headed. Since returning to Richmond, I’ve been thinking about the General Assembly and a few of the things that encouraged me.

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