Mapping our Spiritual Journey

(Nov 2020) Charles Bello This workshop is based on the book, The Critical Journey, by Janet Hagberg & Robert Guelich. I have added insights from When the Heart Waits by Sue Kidd Monk, Invitation to a Journey by Dr. Mulholland Jr., and my own reflections. My...

The Incarnational King and His Kingdom

How do you deal with principalities and powers? You become incarnational in your prayers. You become Jesus with skin on to people afflicted by demonic mindsets, ideologies, and actions. How did God deal with sin, a lost world, satan, and the demonic principalities and...

The Divine Hours

Fixed-hour prayer, sometimes called the Daily Office or the Divine Hours, is the regular and consistent pattern of praying at set times throughout the day. Usually these times consist of praying portions of the Scriptures along with Bible reading and prayers that have...

I Don’t Get the Gospel

(Excerpt from Putting Jesus on Display with Love and Power) I don’t get the gospel. I don’t fully understand how good God is, how lost I am without him, or how good and in right standing I now am because I’ve been hidden in Christ. I forget how real...

Crestwood the Beautiful

If you have been around here for a while, you may have heard us reference Crestwood Vineyard as “Crestwood the Beautiful.”  There is a story behind this. The third week of April, 2013, a week after God spoke to me about planting this church, AT Hardgrave walked me...

A Brief History about Crestwood Vineyard

To begin with, Crestwood Vineyard is a convergence of allot of peoples histories with God and the trajectory of their lives.  I believe that my part is an important part but it’s not the only part, or even the most important part. Personal backstory Some personal...

Confessions of a Pastor in a Female Body

I was recently at the closing session of a pastors’ retreat. As the leader ran through the schedule for the final session, which included extended times for prayer and communion, he asked, “When should we take a group photo?” The developing consensus from the...

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers who are ragged with sleep deprivation and are trying to cover up that spot of your spit-up or snot on your blouse. Happy Mother’s Day to the moms who can’t be here this morning because a kid ran a fever in the middle of the night or...