Written by Matthew Poole One of the most beautiful words ever uttered is the Greek word tetelestai (three words if you’re translating into English). It means this, “It is finished.” These are the words our King Jesus said while He hung on that blessed tree in our place, bearing the full weight of our condemnation. […]
Next week Nate and I (Tony) will be attending the Acts 29 Lead Pastors Retreat in Miami. If the assessment process goes positively, Imago Dei Church will officially be part of the Acts 29 Network (http://www.acts29network.org/). Our good friend Steve Timmis is the Executive Director of A29, and the President is Matt Chandler. We hold […]
Recently, IDC held a Church Planting forum to highlight five church plants that will be sent out from our church and one church planting effort that involves seeking to plant churches among unreached people groups living in NC (http://vimeo.com/89198128). Here is what we are asking of you and here is what our church plants need […]
For those of you who don’t know me, my name’s Frank Hurd. I’m a musician (songwriter, recording artist) by profession – in addition to the occasional odd job! I’m originally from Rhode Island, and have been attending Imago Dei since I moved to Raleigh about a year ago. This week I’ll be departing IDC to […]
Imago Dei is committed to planting churches. We believe this is a major aspect of the command of our Christ to make disciples of all nations. Our King has chosen to use the church to carry out this mission and so we want to be about our King’s mission to see outposts of the kingdom […]
We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to all the Imago Dei covenant members, regular attenders and other partners in the gospel for their generous giving to our special Christmas Missions Offering. As detailed in a previous post, 100% of the funds received in December designated for “Missions” will be split between the IDC Adoption […]
Our identity plays a significant role in shaping our actions… Or at least it should. If I were a heart surgeon, it would be a regular practice of mine to perform heart surgeries on patients. But I am far from a heart surgeon. And because I understand that “heart surgeon” is not part of my […]
Christ’s command to the church is to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:19). This fundamental task of disciple-making must take us to the ends of the earth, and our hope at IDC is to equip our members for the task of going. The primary task for equipping disciple-makers is not for a mission board […]
Pastor Tony recently sat down with R-J Heijmen of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas to talk about grace in church planting.
The clear command of Christ is to go and make disciples. For many years, people have left the United States in search of foreign lands absent of the gospel message. While that is still crucial, a new day dawns in sharing the gospel with the nations. Once, an ocean separated us from the peoples of […]