Homecoming Sunday was a great celebration! It’s always great to have the Nashville Pipes and Drums in worship. Was good to see our families back from the summer and to send so many backpacks and school supplies over to Fall Hamilton! Our fall ministries and programs are up and running! This Sunday, August 30th, we will have our mission and ministry fair after the 9:30/9:40 services. This is a great opportunity to get more plugged into Woodmont for the fall. It is also an impressive display of everything that our church has to offer. Also, Dinner for Eight groups......

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This Sunday, August 23rd, will be Homecoming Sunday at Woodmont, where we will kick off our fall programming and promote our children up to their next grade. We will also have our Blessing of the Backpacks for Fall Hamilton Elementary, our partner school, and welcome the Nashville Pipes and Drums to worship. I will begin a brand-new sermon series called “UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Becoming More Like Jesus.” We will be studying the Gospel of Matthew, which is the very first book of the New Testament. Matthew is an incredible gospel often referred to......

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This Sunday, we will welcome Belmont University President Dr. Greg Jones to Woodmont. Greg is a close friend of mine and is certainly leading Belmont to new heights. I have been honored to serve on Belmont’s Board over the past five years and have watched Greg’s leadership in action. We have been fortunate enough to have him preach here at Woodmont several times in recent years. Greg was also recently named the 2026 Nashvillian of the Year by Easter Seals, which is a high honor. We look forward to hearing his message titled “The Gap and the......

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This Sunday, Aug 2nd, at 10:30 in the Gathering Hall, we will celebrate the ministry and retirement of Jay Hutchens. Jay let us know a few weeks ago that he wishes to retire from his current position to move into a new phase of life. Jay has worn many hats at Woodmont over the past 4.5 years, working with small groups, discipleship, our capital project, security, leading a Sunday School class, and so much more. He has helped move Woodmont forward in many different ways. He will be missed on our staff. I am grateful for everything......

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I hope you can join us on Wed night at 5 pm to hear from Vanderbilt and two-time SEC Coach of the Year Clark Lea. We will talk about how Clark has built a winning culture at Vandy and how college athletics continues to change. As we celebrate 250 years as a nation, we remember that Thomas Jefferson and our founding fathers boldly wrote into the Declaration of Independence that all have a God-given right to life, liberty, and the “pursuit of happiness.” I mentioned Sunday that I have always been intrigued......

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Ever since my childhood, I have loved America. I have loved celebrating the 4th of July. I have loved parades, watching them, and also marching in them. I have loved fireworks, flyovers, the flag, and our beautiful Capitol in Washington, D.C., with all its monuments. And the more I have traveled the world, the more I love our country and feel so fortunate to live in it. No one is a more loyal, red-blooded, flag-waving, patriotic American than I am. I still get a lump in my throat and chills running up......

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As we prepare to celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation this weekend, we should be filled with gratitude for the great country in which we live. Despite our challenges, we have a lot to celebrate in this country. The founders had a dream for building a nation where we would all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are our “inalienable rights,” and we should never take them for granted. However, we do have a significant spiritual challenge facing American society at this moment in history,......

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We are quickly approaching the 250th anniversary of our great nation. This will be a major milestone for our republic, a time for us to reflect and to look ahead. How do we think about the American experiment, and is the dream still alive for new generations? How do we think about the current state of our nation? That can lead to some interesting conversation at a dinner party. Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco published a fascinating book in 1999 titled The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope. In the book,......

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This Sunday, June 7th, we will start a new summer series titled “The 10 Commandments for Today’s World.” God gave Moses the Ten Commandments centuries ago on Mount Sinai. These rules would govern the relationship between God and the Israelites for years to come. Are we still abiding by them today? When Moses came down the mountain after being away for a while, the people were worshipping a golden calf. Consider the irony of that image. I am recommending a great book by Stanley Hauerwas and Will Willimon to go with the......

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This Sunday, May 17, at 10:45 AM, we will officially break ground on our new Family Life Center on the western part of our campus. We have been visioning, planning, and working on this for the past few years, and now it is time to make it a reality. This Life Center will completely transform our campus and help us address many of our current space and parking needs, creating an opportunity for our mission and programs to grow. Over $21M has already been committed over a three-year period. Construction should last......

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