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Dominic Balli – Louder

Love is Louder.

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Cutting Edge Video

This is pretty awesome…thanks to my bro for finding it.

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Our Combined Christmas Eve Service

This past Saturday was our combined service with another local church in our city. We celebrated Christmas Eve with New Song church (their Spring Hill campus) with Pastor Jordan and Bethany Roe. What a great way to be “the church” by coming together with others to worship Jesus for what He did for us.

It was an amazing night. The worship team was made up of singers/musicians from both churches. The ushers, greeters and nursery workers where all from both churches. We even had both of us speak. And can you believe we ended up finishing 2 minutes early! Two pastors speaking could have easily went 2 hours!

I’m so proud of our churches. We packed New Song’s building out. There were people standing all around. I guess next year’s service will have to be in a bigger venue.

The presence of God was so sweet that night. To see people from two different churches, worshiping and praying together, was what I believe God desires to see. I know this is the start of more times like this in Spring Hill (with other churches involved). There is something very special when a pastor gives up his pulpit to another local pastor. I’m so glad to see that the pastors in this city are doing this freely.

I couldn’t have thought of a better way to celebrate the birth of Christ, than with other Christians, in unity together to glorify Him.

It truly was a Merry Christmas!

MR

Christmas Eve with Friends

This year Christmas falls on a Sunday. My first thought was…”great we can spend Jesus’ birth together at church”. After that I realized, it might just be me at church, so that wouldn’t be as much fun as expected. Although people love Jesus, and they know His birthday is Christmas, they also like to spend Christmas at home next to the fire, in their pjs with family. I love going to church, but it’s not as much fun when it’s just me, so we rethought that idea. Now we are doing a Christmas Eve service and no Christmas day one.

To make it even more special, we decided to partner with another local church, New Song Church in Spring Hill. Pastor Jordan and Bethany Roe are great friends and their church is very similar in style and flavor to ours. This made for a great fit to combine services and worship together. We combined our worship teams and both Jordan and myself will share. This is the start of something that, we believe, will continue into the new year. Churches doing “church” together is very special. I know it’s something that makes God happy. To see pastors putting away their agendas and combining together to show unity is powerful. I long for the day churches will do this on a regular basis. Christmas Eve is a start.

So please join us on Dec 24th….at 4-515pm (see, we are doing it earlier so you can still enjoy your Christmas Eve feasts) at New Song church (220 Town Center Pkwy Ste 150, Spring Hill TNĀ  – across from City Hall). We will end the service with a Candle light song (Silent Night). You know it’s going to be special and if you miss it, you could very well have a very sad Christmas. Infact, I believe not only will Santa not show up, but it won’t snow on Christmas, if you don’t attend. Plus we are giving away free Christmas cheer to everyone that attends (and no, that is not a drink).

I’m excited about what God is doing in this city, churches coming together to worship God in unity and loving each other. I hope you will join us Christmas Eve as we worship the REAL reason of this season. He’s much cooler than that over weight older dude that wears red.

Merry CHRISTmas.

MR

Reform the Resistance

Love these guys. Jason (lead singer) goes to our church and I got the pleasure of marrying him and his lovely wife Jenna this past year. I’m a big fan of their music and their vision for ministry. They already have have two awesome videos.

Check out the band here.

MR

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