by Omri Miles | May 10, 2023 | Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant
This Memorial Day (Monday, May 29th) at 3pm, our core church planting team is hosting a crawfish boil to help raise money to cover the church’s initial start-up costs. Participation in this event will cost $30 per person or $100 per family and will include plenty of...
by Omri Miles | Mar 14, 2023 | BTR - Omri Miles, Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant
On Sunday, I updated our church about the New Orleans church plant. A summary of the update is outlined below. News Completed our branding (logo, design, landing page for website – GraceBibleNOLA.org) registered as a corporation with the state of Louisiana...
by Omri Miles | Mar 7, 2023 | BTR - Omri Miles, Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant
Charles Hadden Spurgeon said the following in an address titled, “A New Departure”*: “Surely there is some self-sacrifice among us yet, and some among us who are willing to be exiled for Jesus. The mission languishes for want of men. If the men were...
by Omri Miles | Feb 27, 2023 | Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant
William Hamilton Burns (1779-1859) was a pastor in Kilsyth, Scotland who is now known, oddly enough, for having faithfully and quietly carried out his ministerial duties in obscurity. Burns’s long-range approach to ministry is worthy of imitation and should not escape...
by Omri Miles | Jan 27, 2023 | BTR - Omri Miles, Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant, Uncategorized
Preaching is the bread and wine of the gifts to the church of God. It is sweet to the soul, rich with depth, but also at the same time easy to digest. It is essential to maturity in the life of the believer. If too long without it, it leaves one in a spiritual state...
by Omri Miles | Dec 28, 2022 | BTR - Omri Miles, Elder Blog, New Orleans Church Plant
First, Dinner… Recently, I was reading Everyone A Child Should Know with my family during dinner (our children love this book!). We learned about C. T. Studd (1860-1931), a famous cricket player who left the game after his brother nearly died, causing him to grasp the...
