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What if the surest sign of faith is a willingness to fail? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the On the Ground series with Matthew 14, where Peter steps onto the water toward Jesus, then sinks the moment he fixes on the wind and waves. We make faith harder than it needs to be, snagging on unanswered questions and freezing up over the fear of getting it wrong. But the story is really about a man bold enough to climb out of the boat, and a Savior who catches him the instant he cries out. Stop waiting to be perfect. God is already calling you out of the boat. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew14 #WalkingOnWater #OnTheGround #GetOutOfTheBoat #Faith #FearOfFailure #GrowthMindset #Discipleship #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch

What does the economy have to do with your faith? More than you might think. Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons opens a new series, On the Ground: Ministry in the Real World, with the Feeding of the 5000 in Matthew 14. From Eden to Pharaoh to the rich young ruler, Scripture is haunted by the myth of scarcity, the fear that there is never enough. But Jesus takes five loaves and two fish and reveals the heart of God: abundance, with twelve baskets left over. Go into the world with abundant eyes, because with Jesus there is always enough. Make yourself a plate. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew14 #FeedingOfThe5000 #OnTheGround #Abundance #Scarcity #Stewardship #Generosity #KingdomOfGod #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch

Would you recognize the kingdom of God if it grew like a weed? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on five rapid-fire parables in Matthew 13, where heaven looks like invasive mustard, lumpy old dough, hidden treasure, and a pearl worth everything. Through the unlikely story of Easy Eddie and his son Butch O'Hare, one truth keeps surfacing: God works through unexpected people and places you would never think to look. So stay humble, stay curious, and never count yourself out, because the kingdom spreads in ways we cannot script. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew13 #MustardSeed #HiddenTreasure #PearlOfGreatPrice #KingdomOfHeaven #Humility #UnexpectedGrace #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #OrdinaryTime

Why do we so badly want to yank out the weeds? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on the parable of the wheat and the weeds in Matthew 13, a text people love to read as a warning about who is in and who is out. But the farmer says leave the sorting to the harvest. From the Salem witch trials to next-door feuds, history is one long, sad story of communities trying to purify themselves and causing real harm instead. The kingdom of God grows when saints and sinners sit at the same table, and there weeds become wheat. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew13 #WheatAndWeeds #Judgment #OpenTable #Humility #KingdomOfGod #EndOfTheAge #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #OrdinaryTime

What if sharing your faith was never meant to be the pressure you have made it? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, and the good news lands like relief: you are not responsible for how the seed grows. The sower simply scatters, freely and without prejudice, on every kind of soil. From an atheist jiu-jitsu partner to a blue belt earned after a liver transplant, seeds take root in their own time. Your job is to scatter hope wherever you go and trust God with the harvest. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew13 #ParableOfTheSower #ScatterTheSeed #Evangelism #SowingHope #GospelTransformation #FredRogers #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #OrdinaryTime

Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, it is never quite good enough? Rev. Aaron Smith preaches on Matthew 11, where Jesus names a generation that rejected John the Baptist for fasting and rejected him for feasting. On our nation's 250th birthday, the story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges shows another way: facing a hostile crowd, she prayed for their forgiveness and broke the cycle. Jesus meets our weariness with an invitation, not a demand. Come to me, all who are weary, and find rest for your souls. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #AaronSmith #Matthew11 #WelcomeTheWeary #RubyBridges #Forgiveness #RestForYourSouls #EasyYoke #IndependenceDay #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #OrdinaryTime

Can two short, awkward verses really carry the whole mission of the church? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on Matthew 10:40-42, where Jesus tells his followers that whoever welcomes them welcomes him. You are an ambassador, and even a cold cup of water to a thirsty soul carries his reward. The attraction model of church is dead. We are not called to hope people show up. We are the mission, sent out to be a field hospital for a hurting world. So go be human, look people in the eye, and take the light with you. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew10 #ColdCupOfWater #Ambassadors #Mission #FieldHospital #ChurchOnMission #Hospitality #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #Pentecost

What does baptism actually mean to you? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on Romans 6, and his answer is simple: whatever you think it is, it is more. Baptism is not a second chance or a spiritual reset. It is your death, your burial, and your resurrection with Christ, the start of a total transformation from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. If we died to our old ways, why keep returning to them? Come meet the physician who calls you enough. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Romans6 #Baptism #GospelTransformation #NewLife #AlreadyNotYet #YouAreEnough #FathersDay #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #Pentecost

Why are so many young people looking for meaning in all the wrong places? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on Matthew 9:35 to 10:8, where Jesus looks at the crowds with compassion and sees sheep without a shepherd. In a world where meaning is hard to find and wolves are happy to sell you a counterfeit, the good news comes free. You want a purpose? Look at the world, find the helpers, and go be a shepherd who gives that meaning away. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew9 #Matthew10 #SheepWithoutAShepherd #Compassion #Evangelism #Purpose #KingdomOfHeaven #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #Pentecost

Ever feel like church is the easiest place to hide from God? Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches on Matthew 9, where Jesus dines with a tax collector, gets interrupted by a desperate father, and is grabbed by a woman everyone called unclean. Three moments of friction, one honest truth: God wants your faithfulness, not your filter. Put down the curated version of yourself. Bring your warts, your hard prayers, and your whole messy life to a God who takes you as you are. #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JarrodLongbons #Matthew9 #RealFaith #Discipleship #MessyFaith #Grace #JesusAndSinners #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch #OrdinaryTime

What if "love one another" was never meant to be a solo assignment? Guest preacher Rev. Jordan Gignilliat brings a disarming, funny, and convicting word on Romans 12:9–16 — drawing a surprising parallel between the global yoga community and the worldwide Church to expose how easily like-minded people wound each other. At the heart of it all is agape — the freely given, gloriously irresponsible love that only the Holy Spirit makes possible. Come be challenged to keep showing up for one another.#PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #JordanGignilliat #Romans12 #AgapeLove #GenuineLove #ChristianUnity #LetLoveBeGenuine #GuestPreacher #DisciplesOfChrist #FaithCommunity #SundaySermon #AtlantaChurch

Can the Holy Spirit give you a brand new language and still leave your accent intact? On Pentecost, the birthday of the church, guest preacher Rev. Brooks Gignilliat, PCC's Staff Minister of Outreach, opens a new series, A Church Renewed, with Acts 2, the very moment the church was born in wind, fire, and tongues. Tracing God's pattern from the smoke and trembling of Mount Sinai through the tabernacle and the temple, the sermon shows a God who has always made a way where there was no way. Now, by the Spirit, God's dwelling place is no longer a building but a people. That raises a hard question: are we merely coming to the temple, or are we being the temple for others? Being the temple means people matter more than programs, and it means making room for those who do not look like us. The resurrection changes everything, so go live as the temple of God.#AChurchRenewed #NotesOnDoingChristianity #Acts2 #Pentecost #HolySpirit #MakeAWay #TempleOfGod #BirthdayOfTheChurch #TonguesOfFire #MountSinai #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevBrooksGignilliat #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What gives a person away as "not from around here"? Often it's an accent — and for the Apostle Peter, it was exactly that: the Galilean accent that exposed him the night he denied Jesus. On the Seventh Sunday of Easter — also Senior & Graduate Sunday and a lay-led celebration of the priesthood of all believers — guest preacher Dr. Mary Elizabeth Ellard brings the Listen to Peter series to a close with 1 Peter 4–5. Peter draws on his own failure to counsel a marginalized church on what to do when faith draws reproach, how to stand firm, and why it matters. Weaving together the fiery furnace of Daniel 3, the Greek word katartizō — to set a fracture — and a missionary's haunting line, "We have had no martyrs this year," Ellard urges us to speak a word for Christ. Because our decent, upstanding lives look just like everyone else's until we say the thing that gives us away.#ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter4 #ThingsWeSay #PriesthoodOfAllBelievers #FieryOrdeal #CastYourAnxieties #SpeakYourFaith #SeventhSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #SeniorSunday #GraduateSunday #FieryFurnace #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #DrMaryElizabethEllard #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What if the abundant life you were promised came with a warning label you didn't read first? On the Sixth Sunday of Easter, a day that also marked Mother's Day and Peachtree Christian Church's 101st Founders Day, complete with three baptisms, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the Listen to Peter series with 1 Peter 3:13–22, the passage where the apostle warns a marginalized church it may suffer for doing what is good, then says the strangest thing of all: do not be afraid. Drawing on his own organ transplant, the wordless repentance scene from the film The Mission, the aimless narrator of Fight Club, and a hard-won lesson from his own mother on a grade-school playground, Longbons argues that baptism into Christ pulls you into a deeper, truer world, one where Christ has suffered, been vindicated, and reigns. So do not fear what the world fears. You've been given a hope, and a purpose, that the grave couldn't hold.#ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter3 #DoNotBeAfraid #DeeperWorld #Baptism #ChristReigns #Vindication #SixthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #MothersDay #FoundersDay #TheMission #FightClub #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

What did the world see when it first looked at the church? A ragtag group of peasants following a failed messiah. On the fifth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the Listen to Peter series with 1 Peter 2:2–10 — the passage where the apostle hands marginalized believers four words that have outlived every empire that mocked them: chosen, royal, holy, God's own. Drawing on the South African concept of ubuntu and the Pygmalion effect, Longbons argues that what we see is what we become. Don't beg the world for validation. You've already been called out of the darkness. #ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter2 #LivingStones #RoyalPriesthood #HolyNation #ChosenPeople #FifthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #Ubuntu #ArtOfSeeing #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons