Is God Calling You to Go?
I have long believed that the next wave of missions will be carried forward on the wings of business. That’s why, a little over a year...
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Sep 5, 20164 min read
Five Reflections from My Time Overseas
As many of you know, I spent seven weeks of this summer overseas on an extended mission trip. The elders of the Summit sent my family and...
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Jul 13, 20162 min read
Update from South Africa!
Ryah Greear, dancing during a South African sunset As many of you know, Pastor J.D. has been in South Africa for the past few weeks on an...
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Jun 13, 20161 min read
How You Can Pray for My Family During Our Extended Mission Trip
When God called me to be a pastor, he did so by first calling me to the mission field. I spent the first two years of my ministry as a...
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Jun 12, 20161 min read
What Happens When College Students Put Their “Yes” on the Table
One of the big prayers we have at the Summit is that God would raise up our students to help fulfill the Great Commission. We...
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Jun 8, 20163 min read
Lottie Moon – A Cause for Celebration & A Call to Action
This week, the International Mission Board announced that the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (the IMB’s primary source of funding)...
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Jun 1, 20166 min read
Brother Bill & 43 Years of Faithfulness
A couple weeks ago, Bill Ricketts announced his retirement from Prince Avenue Baptist Church (PABC) in Athens, GA. You may be wondering,...
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May 30, 20161 min read
We Want to Add; God Wants to Multiply
We were honored (and more than a little surprised) to be used as a case study during the Exponential East conference earlier this year,...
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May 12, 20161 min read
“The Love of God Elicits Total Abandonment”
If you missed David Platt’s (president of the IMB) visit to the Summit a few months ago, you need to watch this video. And even if...
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May 2, 20162 min read
Sponsor a Child through Compassion Today!
Summit, this past weekend was a huge one in the life of our church—and, because of your faithfulness, it’s going to be a huge one for...
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Apr 27, 20161 min read
The Bittersweet Joy of Sending Out Our Best
This weekend we had the bittersweet joy of commissioning another 75 Summit members, who are planting another four domestic church...
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Mar 2, 20161 min read
“The Spirit of Christ Wants the World for Christ”
We were so encouraged and challenged a few weeks ago when David Platt, president of the IMB, came to The Summit Church. It is impossible...
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Feb 17, 20162 min read
God Still Does More than We Can Ask or Imagine
A little under a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church a vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. When we first verbalized...
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Feb 3, 20162 min read
Refugees in Our Midst: A Gospel Opportunity
Summit family, I’ve got an exciting update to share with you. If you remember, during our Christmas services at DPAC we collected a...
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Jan 11, 20161 min read
The Cost Will Be Great; The Reward Will Be Greater
I came across this Matt Papa song (again) recently. Incredibly powerful reminder of the importance and urgency of missions. “The mission...
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Jan 6, 20162 min read
The Mission Is Waiting, and Christ Is Worth It
There is a myth among Christians today when it comes to the idea of calling. Many of us are sitting around waiting for some “second call”...
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Dec 14, 20152 min read
Who Is Climbing The Mountains of Lostness?
For those of you here at the Summit, this weekend I asked an important question: who among us is climbing the mountains of poverty,...
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Nov 23, 20153 min read
In Light of Global Terrorism, Isn’t Missions Too Risky?
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have caused a lot of public debate—surrounding issues of immigration (broadly), refugees...
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Aug 10, 20153 min read
Planting 1,000 Churches by 2050: 92 International Plants & Counting!
About a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church the audacious vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. At the time, we had two...
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Jul 8, 20154 min read
The Church Isn’t a Cruise Ship; It’s an Aircraft Carrier
The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. The book comes out July 28, but if you...
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