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Apr 2025
My Upcoming Book – "What the World Needs Now"

I am excited to announce my upcoming book that is being published by Abingdon Press in May titled What the World Needs Now: Virtue and Character in an Age of Chaos. This new book provides antidotes to many of the challenges that our culture is currently facing including loneliness, political polarization, rapid secularization, busyness, exhaustion, anger, outrage, division, declining moral leadership, and a loss of trust among people. My goal is to offer hope and solutions to these challenges and to talk about the timeless values that need to be passed down......

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Emotionally Intelligent Christianity

In our spiritual leadership class on Wednesday nights, we are spending some time focusing on the concept of “Emotional Intelligence” or EQ. I have always believed that emotional intelligence and spiritual maturity go hand in...


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Humility and the Challenge of Personal Growth

We are now in Lent, a forty-day season of soul-searching and spiritual growth preparing for Easter. It is a time to ask deep, meaningful questions about faith and the bigger picture of life. I hope you...


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Showing Empathy, Decency, & Understanding

We will begin the Lenten season this Wednesday night in the sanctuary with an Ash Wednesday service at 6:30 p.m. Lent is the forty-day period leading up to Easter. I hope you will take...


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Selecting Church Leaders

Jim Hester and the nominating committee have been working very hard over the past month. I want to thank everybody who submitted nominations this year. We have had many excellent candidates to discuss and consider. The...


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Letting Go of Anger, Bitterness, & Resentment

A few years ago, I had an insightful conversation with a well-known therapist in Nashville who has been in private practice for decades and has helped many families through infidelity, mistrust, suicide, alcoholism, addiction,...


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LOVE - The Ultimate Test

Valentine’s Day is Friday, so we see lots of messages around love this week. In his book Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer says this: “Love is the acid test of spiritual formation. The single most...


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Self-Awareness Strengthens Relationships

Hunter Mobley will be back to speak in the Woodmont chapel at 6:15 p.m. this Wednesday night, Feb. 5, on “The Enneagram, Love, and Relationships.” Consider this an early Valentine’s event with a dinner...


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Busyness Stifles Spiritual Growth

Many of us have been reading and studying John Mark Comer’s book Practicing the Way to go along with our current sermon series. In the book, Comer says, “The call to apprentice under Jesus...


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About Us

Woodmont is a special place of hope, acceptance, compassion, and great faith. You will discover outstanding worship, different traditions, missions and ministries, God’s gifts and blessings for your life, and a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. All people are welcome here to share in the Lord's Supper, and unite in the love of our Savior. We can't wait to meet you!