We’re still saying YES!

February 4, 2024, Temple Church stepped out on faith. We didn’t start with 100 people and a large bank account. We began with $500, the faith of Pastor Kisha, her husband Willie, and 14 people who said yes to #TempleChurch.

Today, we’re still saying yes with our very first giving campaign: #buildHER. Because of the consistent generosity of our members and friends—people who give faithfully, cheerfully, and sacrificially month after month—we’re almost to our first goal toward building our worship facility.

Thank you for every seed sown and prayer lifted. Thank you for trusting Temple as good ground. As Reese Rucker always says: “Every seed is a brick, every offering is a step, and every sacrifice is a way of saying, ‘Lord, we’re making room for You.’”

Today, we’re inviting you to build with us by giving $20 on what we’re calling #20Thursday?

One small gift.
One powerful act of faith.
One more brick in what God is building.

Because $20 isn’t just a number. That’s faith in action and our vision becoming visible.

And tell somebody. Your share could be the connection that inspires someone else to give. You never know whose “yes” is waiting on your timeline.

Let’s Build HER together!

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ZELLE or APPLE PAY – 901.603.4752
thetemplechurch.net/BuildHER

You fighting or folding?

What do you do when every day it feels like you’re in the fight of your life? You fight!

“Did she say fight?”

Why yes I did. But this won’t be you just swinging all willy nilly. Naw. In this fight, you must focus on the thing that’s after you and what you’ve prayed for. I’m talking about the enemies on the path trying to hinder you. The enemies in the midst trying to distract you. Then the enemies waiting when you get what God promised to make you forget it was God and you start taking credit like it was you.

You must fight. But what your fight is going to acquire, this time, will be far greater than anything you’ve ever had before. This time your fight is for stuff bigger than your expectations. To own and not rent, to buy and not borrow, to be the employer, not the employee, to be healed, for your family to be delivered, for God’s spirit, and to see God, clearer. This time your fight is for what you’ve been called for.

But read this with your good eye. THIS FIGHT WON’T BE PHYSICAL, IT’S PERSONAL.

You’re going to have to fight to hush, not post in your feelings, act out of character, raise your fist, complain, and act as if God has forsaken you. You’re going to have to fight flesh and temptations. You’re going to have to fight the urge to sin and revert to your old ways. Why? Because this fight is for your present, future, and legacy.

And if the enemy wins access to your land, he’ll come after your life next. Why is he after you? Because even when you don’t know how anointed you are. The enemy does. This is why you can’t fight with your fist, but with God and on your face, fasting, prayer, and worship. Beloved, the enemy isn’t after who and what he already has. He’s after who and what God has His hands on. And if you ever want to know the areas you’re anointed in. Look at what the enemy attacks.

So, are you going to fight or fold?

Hello December!

We’re in a new month and somebody is already cringing, wishing for 2025 to be over with already.

Maybe it’s because the year hasn’t panned out as you planned. Shoot, who am I kidding? We don’t even have to talk about the past 11 months because last month was enough on its own. I mean, it whooped yo tail.

You endured a loss. You experienced a death and the grief is still heavy. Plans didn’t work out. Business didn’t do as well as expected. You didn’t meet your goal. You fell off the wagon, under the cart, and were almost run over. You slipped into depression. You slid into sin. Your anxiety flared. You didn’t fast as you promised. May have even gone back on some promises. Church membership and tithes are down. Stuff probably happened that could fill an entire sheet of paper.

But here’s the good news.

YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE!

With tears, pain, mistakes, missteps, mess-ups, and everything else. YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE! And you still have a God who’s looking out for you.

However, the question is now being asked. (Choose how and when to answer.)

What you gonna do with it playa? 👀

Thanksgiving + Grief

Yes, it’s Thanksgiving but somebody is already full from the heaviness and tears of grief. You’re sitting alone or maybe you’re surrounded by family, yet you still feel as though you’re by yourself.

Grief is tugging hard on your heart and you’re trying. You’ve put on a brave face to cook. You smile and nod when someone says something. You sing along with the songs. You even have your outfit laid out for the living room when all you really want to do is crawl back into bed.

I feel you. Grief does that because it’s sneaky, it’s crippling, it’s confusing and it hurts. But here’s what I know. You can live with it. Yes, as hard as it is to go on with a void in your life, you can. In fact, you’ve been doing it. Every day you get up with a broken heart, but you’re doing it. You raise your head from a tear-stained pillow, shower with tears falling, then you get dressed with the deep breaths that calm you, but you’re doing it. Because grief isn’t something you get over. Grief is what you go through.

So, stop feeling guilty for enjoying the moment. Just because you laugh, and live, it doesn’t mean you aren’t grieving. It means you’re alive. I also believe that your loved one would want you to carry on. Use their memory to do just that. You can cry today, and every day beloved, but get up. You owe it to them to carry on.

And know that I’m praying for you.

Be Ye Healed!

Some of you are fighting CPTSD and you don’t even recognize the signs. What’s CPTSD? Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Understand. I’m no expert. In fact, I learned about and researched this while writing #AlmostDestroyed. But what I’ve learned is, we can experience CPTSD from trauma, past relationships, our childhood, witnessing abuse, infidelity, religious hurt, disease, financial trauma, abandonment, bullying, infidelity, harassment, homelessness, and the list goes on.

And when you suffer with CPTSD, it causes you to have difficulty controlling your emotions, intense anger, sustaining relationships, believing you are enough, feelings of shame, guilt, or worthlessness, nightmares and/or flashbacks. You know what else? You’ll feel connected to your trauma and will have a hard time coming out of agreement with it. Why do you think you continue to crave a relationship with the person who keeps hurting you? It’s because there’s something going on, in your mind, that makes you loyal to things that are not loyal to you.

Baby, you may have CPTSD. This is why when something happens, you won’t even recognize that you’ve been triggered until afterwards. At that point, you’ve probably done things you wouldn’t normally do. Like hurt yourself or others. You’ll find yourself floating, face down, in sin and it’s not until you’ve come back to yourself that you now regret what you’ve done. All from being triggered by unresolved hurt, and unhealed trauma that you don’t even know is CPTSD.

This thinking, “hurt them before they hurt me,” or “let me get my lick back,” are both side effects of CPTSD. A side effect you’ll never get rid of if you don’t, A. Admit you need help, B. Get help to figure out your triggers, and C. Receive the help to manage and control when you’re triggered.

Beloved, you don’t have to continue to live like this. Stop being ashamed of your struggle because there is help available, but you must make yourself available for it.

I’m looking forward to meeting the healed YOU. 💚