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Shannon Elliott: Can You Hear Me Now?
Jan 14 2026, Americans realized how fragile our lifestyles actually can be.
Rev. Aaron Long: What is Love
In this week’s column, Rev. Aaron Long tells it like it is. What is love?
Rev. Aaron Long: Why are we here?
Why are we here? Why do we exist? What is our purpose?
Rev. Aaron Long: Crabs in a Bucket or Rising Tides?
Are you crabs in a bucket or are you rising tides?
Rev. Aaron Long: What About the Bible
Rev. Aaron Long explores the history of The Bible.
What is the Gospel?
When we talk about gospel music, gospel centered preaching, sharing the gospel, what does this mean.
Column by Rev. Aaron Long: Why do we Celebrate Christmas?
A weekly column from Rev. Aaron Long. He says keep your focus on the true meaning of Christmas.
Rev. Aaron Long: Evangelize, Educate, Empower
In his latest column, Rev. Aaron Long reflects on the challenges facing today’s Church, noting both cultural pressures and internal shifts that he believes have weakened Christian commitment. He highlights how early Christians grew through personal evangelism, thorough instruction, and empowering members for ministry—practices he argues the modern Church must recover. Long says that returning to these first principles is essential if congregations hope to thrive and pass on the faith to future generations.
Rev. Aaron Long: What About Christmas?
Rev. Aaron Long encourages Christians to “get to the truths behind our favorite Christmas traditions.”
Rev Aaron Long: What are You Reading?
Social media is turning our brains into blurb-addicted zombies, and we don’t even crack open the books behind the beliefs we shout about. In this reflection, I’m challenging us—Christians, socialists, nationalists, everybody—to log off, pick up real books (especially the Bible), and let deep reading shape our convictions instead of TikTok clips and T-shirt theology.
Rev. Aaron Long: Sola's Save the Church
The word sola is Latin for alone
Rev. Aaron Long: Why Lexington Needs Small Churches
Community Pastor Aaron Long writes about the need for small churches. They’ve long been the backbone of real community—places where folks aren’t just faces in a crowd, where pastors know your story, and where people actually show up for each other.
Pastor Aaron Long: Life is a Journey
Pastor Aaron writes, “Baptism, altar calls and the like aren’t the end goal—they are the starting point of what it means to be a Christian.”
Pastor Aaron Long: Two Simple Rules
Pastor Aaron writes: Christianity isn’t complicated, people make it so, but it isn’t. There are just two simple rules and if you get them right you got the rest of this. Jesus says everything comes down to loving the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Where Faith Meets Community: Pastor Aaron Long’s Sunday Columns
Column: When Faith Picks Up the Call
A Faith That Works: Pastor Aaron Long
Rev Long writes: Christianity isn’t a political party; it is an all-consuming belief that should change the believer from the inside out.
Rev. Aaron Long: A Faith That Works
This column challenges Christians to live out their faith beyond labels and politics. Drawing on James’ teaching that faith is shown through works, it calls believers to stop “playing church” and start being the church—loving God, loving others, and following the Lamb rather than political parties. True Christianity, the piece argues, should transform lives so visibly that issues like hunger and homelessness would diminish if believers actually practiced what they profess.
Column: Rev. Aaron Long Church Is a Family
What today’s Christians sometimes forget is that Scripture doesn’t allow us to treat church as a club. Biblical Christianity isn’t “have it your way.”
Faith and Fellowship: God Calls You Where You Are In Life
Inspiring words from Rev. Aaron Long at Paul’s Chapel Evangelical and Reformed Church in Lexington, NC, Davidson County born and bred.