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The Big Ask

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I’m moving to New York City. It’s been a crazy six weeks since I found out I was hired as the Executive for Spiritual Growth at one of the world’s largest women’s organizations, The United Methodist Women. Excited is an understatement!

The story getting to New York City, believe it or not, started over a decade ago when I was a senior at Spelman College.

I tell the story in my last sermon at Impact Church, “The Big Ask.”

Using Luke 11:5-10, I talk about the work we are called to do between the “big ask” and the answered prayer. The work we do in between our prayers and the answering of them are just as important as the answered prayer!

Check out the video below and share with someone who has been knocking at the door waiting for God to answer!

[note: at the 15 minute mark, I accidentally say 2006 when it should have been 2010!]

On the Chase,
Alisha L.

The Big Ask from Impact Church on Vimeo.

Love in the Tough Places

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This past Sunday, I preached on “Love in the Tough Places,” out of John 13:31-35. It’s the section of text where Jesus gives the Disciples the new commandment to love — even in the tough places.

I opened the sermon with a reference to Beyoncé’s new visual album, “Lemonade,” a dynamic ode to heartbreak, restoration, and what it means to love someone in a tough place. Don’t you just love when pop culture helps bring to life the biblical text? #LEMONADE

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Remembering the Dream

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There’s probably not a social media platform existing that I’m not connected to in some way: Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and my newest social media obsession, TimeHop.

TimeHop is an app that shows you everything you posted or shared on your social media sites on that day — from one year ago to eight years ago! Some may say that’s a crazy thing but it’s actually quite cool to see what you were saying, thinking, experiencing on the exact day it happened years later. Continue reading →

And the Church says…

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[I wrote this post in September and it’s been sitting in drafts ever since. *Blows off the dust*]

“Amen.” Of course that’s the automated, often involuntary response to the phrase “And the Church says…” We say it so easily, almost on autopilot, giving no thought to what we’re really saying. But the word “amen” is more than a cliché that fits easily in your church vocabulary list. Continue reading →

Cleanin’ Up Christmas

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Recently, I began reading the book Christmas is not Your Birthday by Mike Slaughter, lead pastor of Ginghamsburg Church, as a part of an Advent small group series hosted by Impact Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The five-chapter book explores the idea of shifting the focus of Christmas from a me-me-me experience to one that gives-gives-gives to those who are in need. I could run the list of great points Pastor Slaughter presents about the commercialization of Christmas, but this blog is about something much more important. Continue reading →