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Summer Time: Refresh and Restart

If your family’s summer has not already started, it is at least in sight. Kids out of school, trips to camp, longer days, vacations, and oppressive heat are just some of the things that mark this time of year. As...
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Page Turners

Even though we are in the middle of the craziness of May, now is a great time to pause for a few minutes to consider what your summer reading might be. After surveying the FPCO pastoral staff for their reading...
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Beauty Will Save the World

It is hard to believe that almost a third of the year is gone and with it has gone most of our new year’s resolutions. Even if we have failed to execute, we should not give up and every day...
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What Do We Believe About Work?

The Orlando Heart of the City Fellows is a Christ-centered, character formation program for recent college graduates based in the local church. Our mission is to prepare the Fellows to live seamless lives of faith and ‘Start Well’. As a...
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Feast of Ideas: Episode 3

This is the 3rd installment of our audiocast, Feast of Ideas featuring Ken Myers. See our previous two blog posts for the first and second episodes. Someone said during the pandemic that, ”In our urgency to return to our normal...
Feast of Ideas with Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio Journal

Feast of Ideas: Episode 2

Today is the second installment of our audiocast, Feast of Ideas (see previous blog post for the first episode.) The discussion picks up with Ken Myers unpacking the premise he put forward in the first audiocast that the renewal of...
Feast of Ideas with Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio Journal

Feast of Ideas: Episode 1

Today we are extremely excited to launch the inaugural audiocast, Feast of Ideas. This first series features Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio. Ken is an amazing gift that the Lord has given to the church. He has his pulse...
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THE LONGEST YEAR

As we come to the end of the first month of 2021, it may be a good time to reflect more intentionally and without the distraction of the holidays. Today’s article is timeless except for the fact that it is...
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Historic First Pres Leader Targeted by the KKK: A Life We Should Remember

Whew! 2020 is over!  With the dawning of any new year, there is a sense that we get to start over with a clean slate. As we begin again, there are important lessons we should have learned from 2020. It...
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Joy to the World!

Joy to the World may not be the song in your heart these days, but after all it is 2020 (at least for another week.) While we all know that the turning of the calendar to 2021 is not going...
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Advent & The Workplace: Rejoice!

“Long lay the world, in sin and error pining 'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks, a new and glorious morn”  ~ O Holy Night,  Composed by...
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A COVID Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2020 is upon us and apparently there will be no departure from all things COVID. Like everything else in this strange season, we find ourselves swimming in warnings, CDC recommendations, and a myriad of questions: to mask or not...

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