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......

Read More

Megan and I just returned from a trip to the beach celebrating our 17th anniversary. I am grateful to our youth for leading worship on Sunday and to our graduating seniors for giving the sermons. I watched on the livestream and was very inspired. They all did an incredible job! We are now entering the month of graduations. Many of my Vanderbilt students are moving on to the next stage of life, ready for the unknown. Solomon famously writes in Ecclesiastes: “For everything, there is a season and a time for every......

Read More

I want to thank everybody who made a pledge on Commitment Sunday to support Woodmont’s budget for another year. If you haven’t, we STILL need your help to raise our operating budget. Again, this is different from the capital campaign. This supports our ongoing mission, ministry, and operations. You can click here to make your pledge online. I was first called to Woodmont in the summer of 2007. I moved to Nashville, single, with a golden retriever and U-Haul full of belongings. The parsonage, “Campbell West,” became my home and it was......

Read More

This Sunday is COMMITMENT SUNDAY at Woodmont. We will wind down our spring stewardship campaign, “Living Generously,” that supports the mission and operations of our church for another year. Our church remains healthy financially, but we all must continue to support it. Jesus said clearly, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” If you give your money to anything in life, you will pay close attention to how it is doing. Heart follows treasure, according to Jesus. Living generously is part of growing in faith. Our operating budget is......

Read More

What an incredible joy to baptize our disciples class this past Sunday! We are very proud and thankful for these young people. This Sunday, we will begin a new sermon series on the Book of Ecclesiastes titled “Our Search for Meaning.” Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon, “The Preacher,” is one of those books of the Bible that can leave you scratching your head. Yet, it is also one of the most challenging and profound books of the Bible.  It raises deep questions such as, “What is life all about? How do I find meaning and purpose? Why......

Read More

We had a wonderful Easter celebration at Woodmont! This Sunday, we will keep the spirit alive by baptizing our young people. We are in the business of building Christian lives. Easter is not just a day. It is a season, a mindset, and a way of life. We celebrate with these families as their children take this big step. Preachers always feel the pressure to deliver a powerful and relevant Easter message. But how many different ways can you tell the story? Each gospel has a slightly different version of the story.......

Read More

We are now in Holy Week, the greatest week of the year for Christians. We will have special services on Maundy Thursday at 5:30 PM and Good Friday at noon. We can learn a lot from Jesus’ final days on earth. His decision to enter Jerusalem riding on a donkey fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy and was an emphatic statement of who he was – he was the messiah. But his kingdom and his message was one of peace and not war. One of love and not conquest. In first-century Palestine, when a king......

Read More

We are now less than two weeks away from Easter. Here are some important things that are happening at our church that you need to be aware of. CONFESSIONS OF FAITH – The 58 members of our Disciples class will make their confessions of faith at the 9:30 service this Sunday. This is the largest Disciples class we have ever had, and they will be baptized on Sunday, April 12. Please keep these young people and their families in your prayers during this very special time. SPRING STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN – Our spring stewardship campaign will......

Read More

This is spring break time for many of our families. For those travelling, be safe. I hope you enjoy some rest and renewal. Keep our mission team in Guatemala in your prayers! Holy Week and Easter are just around the corner. New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has published numerous books over the years. One of his best is titled Simply Jesus. Wright opens the book by posing a series of questions about Jesus of Nazareth: “Who exactly was he? What did he think he was up to? What did he do and......

Read More

One of the most important things we do as a church is pour Christian values and love into our young people, forming their faith, teaching them about Jesus, and equipping them to lead both now and in the future! Woodmont does this very well! Abby Akers moved to Nashville three years ago. She has been our Middle School Youth Director over the past year and a half and has done an incredible job in this role! She is gospel-focused, loves our kids, and has poured herself into this ministry. A few weeks ago,......

Read More