2020 Year-End Reflection From Our Shepherds
We asked our Shepherds four questions about their experiences and learnings in 2020. These were their responses.
Continue readingElders Note for October 18, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: October 11, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” Eph. 1:3 I have a friend from work whom I’ve known for nearly 20 years. Every time anyone else asks him,
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: October 4, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, For the past several weeks, we have been looking at the fruit of the Spirit. This week the fruit is faithfulness. Faithful is defined as the steadfast adherence to a person or thing to which one is bound, as by an oath or obligation. Some synonyms
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: September 27, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, I remember it like it was yesterday, although some of the details are a bit fuzzy now. I was driving back to my office, late to the next meeting. It was an October day, chilly and rainy. I first saw her standing on the street waiting
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: September 20, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, I was sitting recently with a dear friend, Pastor Enoch Fuzz, from Corinthian Missionary Church. Enoch is battling stage 4 lung cancer. As we reminisced about our 4-year friendship, I asked him how he engages with people of every ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. “Enoch, why
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: September 13, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, The sweetest thing in all my life has been the long to reach the Mountain, to find the place, where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing?
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: September 6, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, We hope everyone had a good and productive week. For families with children in school, our prayer has been that the transition to school-year schedules has been as smooth as possible. With school looking so different from what it did a year ago, we understand the
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: August 30, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, We have all been a part of one of “those” conversations. Someone is suffering from a terrible illness or grieving the loss of a loved one or reeling from some unexpected tragedy in their personal life, and that person has no faith in God and no
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: August 23, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, The story is told of a 94-year-old man who was in the process of moving into a retirement facility. He would be there alone, as he had just lost his beloved wife of 70 years a few months earlier. He would also be leaving the house
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: August 16, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, About ten years ago a self-help guru coined the term LifeQuake to describe the personal, direct impact of major events that may be totally beyond our control. Although the word is a “made up” term, it is descriptive and evocative enough that you know exactly what
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: August 9, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, The writer of Hebrews addressed Christians who had grown weary, having faced persecution, social ostracism, one bad event after another, to which there must have seemed no apparent end. So, he encouraged them to hold on to their faith like in the old days. “Take care,
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: August 2, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, “One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!” John 9:25 For the last several weeks we have heard messages about the gift of clarity. We have been reminded of the stories of Hagar, Elisha, Balaam, the blind man at Bethsaida, the apostle
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: July 26, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, Major Daniel Webster Whittle was from Illinois and served in the Union army during the Civil War. He was wounded at Vicksburg and then later was with Sherman’s army as they marched across Georgia. After the war he settled in Chicago, where he came to know
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: July 19, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, Do you feel like you are being tested? It is certainly easy to feel that way with all that is going on in the world today. There is little of our lives that has not been impacted by the pandemic. Today’s new normal is nothing like
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: July 12, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, As we continue to adjust to the changes in our lives over these past several months, we all react in different ways. Some enjoy newfound time alone, while others feel isolated and lonely. Some enjoy spending extended time with family, while others find that it puts
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: July 5, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, We long to see all of you face to face again, but we hope you are being blessed and encouraged by our ministry team and their desire to offer so many ways for us to worship together right now. It looks different, and it feels different, but it gives new
Continue readingA Letter from the Shepherds
Dear Harpeth Hills, We wanted to let you know that two of our shepherds, Mike Green and Parker Panovec, have made the decision to step down from their roles as elders at Harpeth Hills. Please read their notes below. Teresa and I have been richly blessed with the opportunity to be fellow Christian
Continue readingA Note From Our Shepherds: June 28, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, March 15, 2020 is a date we will remember for years—the day we were advised to stop assembling for worship at Harpeth Hills due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. That day triggered a series of emotions that, for many of us, changed weekly. The word for
Continue readingA Note from Our Shepherds: June 21, 2020
Dear Harpeth Hills Family, We have so missed you! Every week since our world changed in March, we have prayed for the day that we are together again in person. We are overjoyed that we will begin seeing some of you this Sunday. Harpeth Hills Together! Even though we have been
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