For people with bishop Rob Wright

Have you enjoyed God in these past 15 months of exhaustion, livelihood, and knocking out the daily to-do? It can feel never-ending! When you think about it, when is the last time you slowed down to simply enjoy God? In

The bible names the Holy Spirit as many things: life-giver, helper, fire, teacher, wisdom, counsel, might, knowledge, power, freedom, truth, hope, belonging, fellowship increaser, healer, reconciler, forever friend, renewer, proclaimer, boldness maker, anointer, love refiner, maker of faithfulness, the resuscitator

Blessed! A word we hear often both in the church and in the world. But what does blessed mean? It isn’t a magical state. It is about walking a particular path and it guides us clear from some things and

Breaking news: Jesus speaks life from the garden.  That would be the headline if the Gospel read like the New York Times or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Sometimes Rabbi, sometimes wonder-worker, Jesus of Nazareth convenes a small gathering of day laborers

Easter isn’t over. And though we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection in our own lives, Easter isn’t the absence of the valleys. By definition, valleys are “depressed areas of land-scoured and washed out by the conspiring forces

You have to have a Good Friday, and the silence of Holy Saturday, before you can have an Easter Sunday. We are Easter people – resurrection people, that must also remember the suffering of Good Friday. The darkness.  On that

If happiness is lavender, then joy has to be purple.  Why purple?  Because you make purple out of red and blue.  Love and sorrow. Joy lives at that intersection of heartbreak and ecstasy. Joy doesn’t live alone, she has four

How we stand for truth has everything to do with the truth we stand for.  For us, the most true thing in the universe is God!  With the most true thing about God being that “God is love.”  We know

Putting Jesus at the center of your life is learning how to love as God loves, which involves a willingness to sacrifice our preferred ways and outcomes in favor of Jesus’ way and his preferred outcomes. Spiritually, we haven’t grown

What to do when God is silent, goes the question. But maybe what is really being said here is, ‘God is not speaking to me in a fashion that is convenient or dramatic enough to address my anxieties and hardships.’ 

Self-examination means we pause and check-in with our soul. And we ask our soul two questions: What are my patterns?  And, do they increase well-being? Ultimately the practice of self-examination is a gift because it moves us from blindness to

It is hard to believe that Lent was just underway at the beginning of the pandemic this time a year ago. And we said “this is the lentiest lent we have ever lented”. And a year later, meet lenty lent

A simple question: Have you met God more than once? In thinking about our lives, people might notice they have met God in multiples locations, settings of life, and when it was least expected. These rendezvous with God happen in

Some people hear the words “demonic activity’ and they call BS. But Jesus himself walk through darkness. He met darkness – the darkness of our hearts! Bishop Wright wrote this latest For Faith in the wake of the insurrection at

“Hello Darling Today I find myself a long way from you and the children. I am at the State Prison in Reidsville which is about 230 miles from Atlanta. They picked me up from the DeKalb jail about 4 ’0

2020 was tough, and guess what? We aren’t out of the woods yet! In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about the journey ahead and the journey of the wise men as they followed a star looking