It’s time for the best week of the year–VBS/VBX! It’s going to be an action-packed week of Bible stories, missions, science experiments, worship, recreation and more! For the first time ever, Church at The Mill will have three identical VBS/VBX experiences; you just pick the location that works best for your family!
Our theme this year is Magnified! We are excited to discover the bigness of God in the smallest of things. We look forward to seeing how God cares about the big things and the small details and how He cares about you as well.
*This blog was originally posted by ACBC, view the original post here. Anxiety. It can keep you up at night, rob you of your joy, and paralyze further action. Everyone wrestles with anxiety to some extent. For some, anxiety is an ever-present companion, a signature struggle that feels insurmountable. During the times […]
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Why Grief and Your Child? We often think about grief and adults, but what about when our children struggle with loss and grief? When they face life’s losses, how do they find hope when they’re hurting? In Grief and Your Child, I apply biblical principles of loss and hope to the grief experience of
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You’ve heard it said before… There are no perfect marriages. It’s true, all marriages go through hard times! The difference that exists in marriages is how the husband and wife decide to get through the hard. It’s not about how many differences there are between two spouses, it’s about how you handle those differences. The
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I get it. Anxiety is real. Life gets tough, trials hit, pressure mounts, and our flesh takes over. Before we know it, we’re overwhelmed with worry. In fact, that is exactly how the dictionary would define anxiety. Thankfully, for those of us who trust in Jesus, we don’t have to wander aimlessly when it
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When Scripture indicates that Christians should be able to rejoice in their suffering (Rom. 5:3-5) because of the hope we have in the gospel, it can be difficult to accept. Some try to make the teaching more palatable by offering a variant definition of “joy;” others try to promise that the outcomes of how God
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In the past two months, a really interesting study has been published by a group of researchers in the United Kingdom, including Joanna Moncrieff of the Division of Psychiatry at the University College London.[1] The article was the product of research that examined a large number of studies dealing with the chemical imbalance theory of depression.
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My daughter was the only one without goggles. It was the first day of swim lessons, and, out of the group of children, she was the only one missing this essential piece of gear. We actually own goggles, but we hadn’t been able to find them before we left. My thoughts spiraled. “I
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Dean’s Story The first time Dean (not his real name) came to see me it was pretty obvious that he had a temper. The cast cover his right hand was part of the evidence. He had tried to break a car window and found it rather resistant. Over the course of five months, we worked
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*This blog was originally posted by ACBC, view the original post here. Recently I heard a song that took me back to my childhood and beyond—the Statler Brother’s, “Do You Remember These?” Maybe you remember the song, or some of the allusions in the song: Saturday morning serials Chapters one through fifteen Fly paper,
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As a pastor, I hear this question often: “My child is starting to ask questions about their salvation and I’m not sure what to say. Can you help?”
While it may seem daunting at first, having gospel conversations with your child does not have to be intimidating or overwhelming. It is an awesome opportunity that we have been given as a parent to shepherd our child’s heart by sharing the good news of Jesus with them.
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