WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Have you ever wondered what the point of all this is? Not just church. I mean all of it. Why are we here? What are we actually supposed to spend our lives doing? We fill our calendars, build careers, raise families, chase goals, make money, take vacations, watch another season of our favorite show, scroll way too long on our phones, and somehow hope that somewhere in the...
10 days ago • 5 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, I think most of us have dreams. We just don’t always call them that. Maybe it’s something you’ve quietly hoped God might do through your life, something you’ve imagined for your family, or something you’ve felt called to pursue but haven’t quite known how to begin. The problem is that when God puts something in our hearts that is bigger than us, our first response is...
17 days ago • 4 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, I woke up at 2am yesterday morning and drove 8 hours to spend the day learning from some of the smartest ministry minds in the world. It was an incredible day, and I'm really grateful for the opportunity. I'm also a little tired. 😂 Which actually feels pretty fitting for what I've been thinking about this week. I preached about this Sunday: we often think survival comes...
24 days ago • 2 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, I wonder how many of us are carrying things Jesus already carried. Guilt. Shame. Regret. Past mistakes. The things we wish we could take back. The things nobody else knows about. The things we know God has forgiven… but somehow still haven't forgiven ourselves for. I think that's one of the strangest things about following Jesus. We can believe that Jesus died for our...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, A little different this week... Usually, I write about faith, life, leadership, grief, growth, or whatever I've been wrestling with lately. This week, I'm wrestling with the Church. And because I'm a pastor, I want to be really careful with that. I'm not writing this as someone who has figured it all out. I'm writing this as someone who loves the Church and has been...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, This week was my dad's birthday. And honestly? It was much harder than I imagined. I know it's been a few months. I know grief doesn't have a timeline. I know there are going to be good days and hard days and days that surprise me. But this week was just... hard. There are some weeks when I feel like I'm doing pretty well. I'm working. I'm preaching. I'm hanging out with...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Last week, we packed up and headed to Disney World. Sara, our two boys, my mom, and me, all in for the "Most Magical Place on Earth" in the middle of August. It was AWESOME! But it also was August... In Florida heat... With toddlers running on limited sleep. If you know, you know. But somewhere between the meltdowns and the popcorn, something else showed up that I wasn't...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, It feels like we live in a world that has forgotten how to disagree without becoming enemies. Scroll through social media for five minutes and you'll see it. Political divisions.Cultural divisions.Religious divisions.Generational divisions. Everybody has an opinion.Everybody has a side.And everybody seems to be looking for someone to blame. We're becoming really good at...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, You may have noticed this week's Weekly Pursuit showed up a little later than normal...Or maybe you didn't. 😂 I briefly considered pretending this was all part of a brilliant illustration about delays... but if I'm honest, it was mostly just life happening. Still... The timing made me think. So much of life doesn't happen according to our schedule. There are delays we...
2 months ago • 2 min read