Cedar Ridge Congregation, Nashville, TN

04/18/2023

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting our first Yard Share in 3 years!!! Join us Saturday May 6th starting at 8 am. Everything will be FREE! We have clothes, décor, kitchen utensils, and much more!

04/23/2021

Another fantastic Cedar Ridge Service is planned for this Sunday. Sunday's theme is "The Lord is My Shepherd" and Blake will be giving our message.
Come share in fellowship and community with us, we look forward to seeing you!

04/02/2021

Easter is here!! This Sunday we have a special family activity planned that will be hosted by Pete. Remember to bring a pen and a piece of paper numbered 1 to 30. There are whispers of a pretty awesome prize for the winners so be on your game Sunday! After our activity we encourage everyone to join the World Church's Easter Service via livestream at 2 pm. You can find the details at https://www.cofchrist.org/.
This Sunday is exciting for many reasons. So much is happening and we wouldn't want you or anyone to miss the fellowship and connection. We look forward to you joining us Sunday at 10:45!

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Community of Christ is a worldwide church with a mission to “proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace.”

03/12/2021

We had a successful gathering for fellowship and discussion this past Wednesday. We hope you will join us for the next one on March 24th. This Sunday we have another opportunity to celebrate God's Love and Advent with a guest speaker! Katie Barber will be giving our message on the theme "Accept the Light of the World."
Remember to bring your piece of paper with a place you've always wanted to visit written on it for this week's ice breaker. Cedar Ridge is an open community who accepts anyone so feel free to invite anyone who might need a little piece of community.
We will see you Sunday at 10:45!

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03/04/2021

We have a lot going on this Sunday, this is one you don't want to miss! Not only are we continuing our celebration of the Lenten season with the theme of "Hear God's Guidance" (Sounds a lot like Where have you seen God), we are also renewing our commitment with God by taking the Lord's supper, and we have special guest Jay Rogers giving our morning message.
Wow, what a jam packed service! We are excited for you to join us this Sunday at 10:45. Be sure to share this invite with someone who might need some community. Message us for more information and the zoom link.

Peace be with you,
Cedar Ridge Pastoral Team

02/18/2021

Come warm up with us this Sunday as we explore the theme "The Everlasting Covenant" and hear the great Stacey Parker speak! This is one for the books so be sure to invite anyone you think could benefit from a piece of community. We'll see you Sunday at 10:45! Message us for the zoom information.

01/29/2021

Who is ready for another great Sunday service?! I do hope you will join us as we explore the theme "Recognize the Holy One." Our Scripture for this week shows Jesus in the early days of his ministry. The disciples have been called to serve, but Jesus is still an unknown rabbi.
We know there are many that are looking for a community. If you encounter someone like this please invite them to our service. All are welcome.

Message us for the link to the service, see you at 10:45 am CST!

01/08/2021

I was all set to send out the invite for our business meeting and service this week when I was made aware of the violent situation taking place in our nation’s capital. Like many others I tuned into the news confused, scared, angry, and, at some points, hopeless. What I saw yesterday was unlike anything I’ve seen before and God put something else on my heart to share.


This year has produced a lot of events that have left people confused, scared, angry and hopeless. The turning of the year brought hope to many, hope that things would change and be better. Were we mistaken? Is hope lost? Will we continue to get more and more divisive and ideologically driven causing more death and destruction? Most importantly what about the question we ask ourselves each week? Where have we seen God lately? These are all questions I have asked myself in recent weeks/months. It was with these questions that I read our scripture this week.



The scripture for this week comes from Genesis 1:1-5 and details the creation of the universe. It describes the earth as a formless void of darkness. Then God creates light and calls it good. Sometimes situations leave us feeling like we are in the midst of a dark, formless void. We see our world around us become unrecognizable. It is in these moments where God’s creative action occurs.



We are a community made up with unique individuals who will not see eye to eye on some, if not most things, but what I encourage the congregation to do is follow God’s example. Be an active creator. Take situations that feel chaotic and formless and use God’s love to create peace, light, and goodness in the communities and relationships you experience each day. The time to come together is long overdue.



Thank you for your uniqueness and willingness to build God’s Peaceable Kingdom.



Peace be with you,

11/02/2020

November 8th - 10:45

Cedar Ridge is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Mid-South Mission Center Worship Service
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10/27/2020

☺Hello Cedar Ridge!
Hope the clouds aren't getting you down! Lol
The following email contains some prep Steve is asking us to do for next Sunday.

🕑Also, Don't forget to fall back this coming weekend! Daylight Saving Time Ends @ 2am Sunday Morning 11/1.

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Because this Sunday is All Saints day, I want to ask those that will Zoom this Sunday to bring with them a testimony about disciples of old, those who lived lives of faithfulness that influenced your life and briefly, how did they impact your life? In this way,we will honor all the Saints that have gone before us and reaffirm our life of faith in Christ.

Thanks, and I can hardly wait!
Steve

Google Definition for All Saints Day
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Every year on November 1, many Roman Catholics and other Christians around the world observe All Saints Day, which honors all saints of the church that have attained heaven.

10/23/2020

☺🍁Greetings Cedar Ridge!

Hope you are all healthy and well!

The following email contains Blake's invite for Sunday's Zoom Service & the suggested theme scripture for this week.

See You Sunday!

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Cedar Ridge,

Our theme this week is "Defined By Love" and explores Matthew 22: 34 - 46.To me, the heart of the Gospel is stories of people who show that they are rooted in and defined by love through action. We see this in Matthew 22:37 - 39 when Jesus states the first and second greatest commandments.

To be defined by love we must continually ask ourselves if our actions and words are spreading love. Are we living out love as a spiritual practice? This Sunday I look forward to sharing more about how people become defined by love.

Peace be with you,
Blake

Cedar Ridge is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Sunday 10/25 Service "Defined By Love"
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MATTHEW 22: 32-46 NLT

*See note below

32 ‘I am* the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’? So God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”[c]

33 The crowds were profoundly impressed by his answers— 34-35 but not the Pharisees! When they heard that he had routed the Sadducees with his reply, they thought up a fresh question of their own to ask him. One of them, a lawyer, spoke up: 36 “Sir, which is the most important command in the laws of Moses?”

37 Jesus replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ 38-39 This is the first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar: ‘Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.’ 40 All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets stem from these two laws and are fulfilled if you obey them. Keep only these and you will find that you are obeying all the others.”

41 Then, surrounded by the Pharisees, he asked them a question: 42 “What about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,” they replied.

43 “Then why does David, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, call him ‘Lord’?” Jesus asked. “For David said,

44 ‘God said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your feet.’

45 Since David called him ‘Lord,’ how can he be merely his son?”

46 They had no answer. And after that no one dared ask him any more questions.

*of the living, i.e., if Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, long dead, were not alive in the presence of God, then God would have said, “I was the God of Abraham, etc.”

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10/10/2020

Hello Cedar Ridge,

Here is the zoom invite, sorry it is so late in the week. I hope you all are enjoying fall and staying safe! Our theme this week is "Confess our Impatience." What is something you have no patience for? I can't stand waiting in lines, it can be at the checkout, concessions stands, or traffic. Sometimes I have switched lines multiple times because one looked shorter. I'm interested to see what makes our speaker, Dian, impatient.

I'd like to give you a pre-Sunday challenge. Who can you call today to join us for the service? I want to challenge you to send a text, make a call, forward an email, etc to those individuals and invite them to be a part of our Sunday experience. I'll see you and your invitees tomorrow at 10:45 sharp!

Peace be with you,
Blake

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CONFESS OUR IMPATIENCE
EXODUS 32: 1-14, The Message

32 When the people realized that Moses was taking forever in coming down off the mountain, they rallied around Aaron and said, “Do something. Make gods for us who will lead us. That Moses, the man who got us out of Egypt—who knows what’s happened to him?”

2-4 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold rings from the ears of your wives and sons and daughters and bring them to me.” They all did it; they removed the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from their hands and cast it in the form of a calf, shaping it with an engraving tool.

The people responded with enthusiasm: “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from Egypt!”

5 Aaron, taking in the situation, built an altar before the calf.

Aaron then announced, “Tomorrow is a feast day to God!”

6 Early the next morning, the people got up and offered Whole-Burnt-Offerings and brought Peace-Offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink and then began to party. It turned into a wild party!

7-8 God spoke to Moses, “Go! Get down there! Your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt have fallen to pieces. In no time at all they’ve turned away from the way I commanded them: They made a molten calf and worshiped it. They’ve sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are the gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

9-10 God said to Moses, “I look at this people—oh! what a stubborn, hard-headed people! Let me alone now, give my anger free reign to burst into flames and incinerate them. But I’ll make a great nation out of you.”

11-13 Moses tried to calm his God down. He said, “Why, God, would you lose your temper with your people? Why, you brought them out of Egypt in a tremendous demonstration of power and strength. Why let the Egyptians say, ‘He had it in for them—he brought them out so he could kill them in the mountains, wipe them right off the face of the Earth.’ Stop your anger. Think twice about bringing evil against your people! Think of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you gave your word, telling them ‘I will give you many children, as many as the stars in the sky, and I’ll give this land to your children as their land forever.’”

14 And God did think twice. He decided not to do the evil he had threatened against his people.

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