<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rock Springs Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rock Springs Church]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:25:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.rocksprings.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Waiting Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 Almost everyone knows what it feels like to sit in a waiting room. You check in, take a seat, and wait for your name to be called. Minutes can feel like hours. You look around, glance at the clock, and wonder when it will finally be your turn while watching people come in and out of the room. Sometimes life can feel exactly like this. There are seasons when we pray, hope, and ask God for...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/the-waiting-room</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b328c260bf8f6bb4f07b2c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_87ff96d653594bd2a51a160af611ca1f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rock Springs Church</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submitting The Mind To God (Part 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Study is a means to Holiness. It should form within each aspect of our lives.  Study is a means to growth in Christian virtues. It must compel us to project these virtues into our environment.     We must learn the moral standard that God has set before us through His Instruction Manual (the Bible).   We cannot discern well in this life without the Word of God being imperative in our daily routines. By digging deeper into the Holy Scriptures and applying what we have learned and hidden in our...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/submitting-the-mind-to-god-part-5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b32a0f19a7028f2bc27a41</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_c24a8c5801a94f339623632f80ec579f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submitting The Mind To God (Part 4)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Submitting the Mind to God (Part 4)     Many Christians do not continue to learn and grow in God’s Word as they physically mature, causing them to remain “babes” in Christ. Can you imagine trying to put back on the infant clothes you once wore as a newborn? How comfortable would that be?     Just as those clothes were for a particular stage in life, so is the importance to continued study so that you may show yourself “approved unto God-a workman that needs not to be ashamed, “rightly”...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/submitting-the-mind-to-god-part-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b3205da7843f58b682c82c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_b7985fca10d743dbb71c3bbe7af5b882~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock Springs Macon Campus Adds Jabbok Ministries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rock Springs Church Welcomes Jabbok Ministries to Macon Campus, Offering Counseling Services to the Community ]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/rock-springs-macon-campus-adds-jabbok-ministries</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696aacff022bfc82f7677af7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:38:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_6241f4e91c12493da43d3cda8dd21800~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rock Springs Church</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Miracle in The Mirror ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or do most days consist of neglecting to see what God sees when you’re getting ready for the day and you look into that mirror at your reflection?    James 1:23-24 states:  'For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.’     To be so bombarded by the weights of the world that you cannot look into the mirror and see the miracle...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/the-miracle-in-the-mirror</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b327f860bf8f6bb4f0794a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_d0b39f7cd1da41c08a452b3f3cf2fa08~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI or I AM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exodus 3:10-14, “So now, go.  I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”  But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”  And God said, “I will be with you.  And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you:  When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”  Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/ai-or-i-am</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e08156509164f21aeee27</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:05:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_17cbe474e82540fab6d86301f2b83a62~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>RSC Volunteer Writer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submitting The Mind To God (Part 3)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Submitting the Mind to God (Part 3)     Knowing the difference between two opposing concepts of Christianity is incredibly important:    False  Authentic    False Christianity  we can compare as to the middle class of people who are satisfied and/or passive. These people are perfectly fine if nothing changes. They can sit cozy in the pews every Sunday in church without any fundamental shift in their atmospheres. They are OK with the status quo and religious practices. They may be...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/submitting-the-mind-to-god-part-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e5ac34cb1a91e8e612d12</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_470309626f364a7cb6a3a4ccb1899733~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers and Punctuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.  May your Kingdom come soon.  May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.  Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us.  And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.  Matthew 6:9-13 NLT   Chances are, if you are a Christian, you have at some point memorized these scripture verses.  This was the example that Jesus gave his disciples in Matthew as a model...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/prayers-and-punctuation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a4dec281e6ee2fae5f0a25</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:07:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_1c240f61c46b4f0186c13b62ff845a6e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>RSC Volunteer Writer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.  But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do. James 1:22-25 NIV  As a little girl born...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/reflection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f24b5027064b4fa44dee82</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:48:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_e71564db372c41948928d6aefac9aa40~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>RSC Volunteer Writer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submitting The Mind To God (Part 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christianity is not an external show of practices, religion, prayers, emblems, going to church every time the doors are open, devotional...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/submitting-the-mind-to-god-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6883e577a885b55f7a91f217</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:00:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_1f6ac50636cf4a459568c085e8d50ecf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weight of Betrayal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading in Psalm 55, the Bible doesn’t say it, but I have no doubt that David was writing about Ahithophel (his counselor and friend),...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/the-weight-of-betrayal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6851bae4d8437c49c9cace10</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:16:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_24ac3c5439ec4df9846ed83a011babac~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jacob Weldon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submitting The Mind To God (Part 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most Christians know that our hearts must submit to God. But what about our minds? Do we fully submit our minds to God?  In this series...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/submitting-the-mind-to-god-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6851b9f505d47c18c46593fc</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_6e3ba0f34ea4456992e6824592680a3d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[TAKE FLIGHT]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do we prepare for Heaven when most of the runway is behind us? That final boarding call to take flight may be closer than we know. ...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/take-flight</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6851b1bd05d47c18c4657eb2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_5ae828902a084daa80f8f1194f92d1b3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JulieAnn Griffin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength in Our Weakness]]></title><description><![CDATA[My most adventurous friend and I decided we needed a little time in the great outdoors so we picked a place, set our Google Maps and off...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/strength-in-our-weakness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6814f99f123f5ac95e2448d1</guid><category><![CDATA[Encouragement]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_3423be9e437949d2b3c427134f3b3338~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tess Hammock</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Thou My Vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe it’s my recent need for comforting, familiar things that has led me down the rabbit hole of old hymns and traditional worship.  One...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/be-thou-my-vision</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68150b5280e2422fe514ad34</guid><category><![CDATA[Encouragement]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_e0f3cd4ea4ea4dedaf7d42431d127f69~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tess Hammock</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witnessing in the Workplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the majority of Americans reassemble in their respective offices after months of lax schedules, working from home, and creating...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/witnessing-in-the-workplace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68150c70123f5ac95e247f41</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:18:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_95cde75c97934de08438a05b35724d03~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_680,h_383,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tess Hammock</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Activities to Shake Cabin Fever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being home-bound can be stressful, not to mention boring.  If you have children and adults who are together more than normal, now is the...]]></description><link>https://www.rocksprings.org/post/10-activities-to-shake-cabin-fever</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681cc047f542a5f26f2c96f4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/523ffa_e220a854f7394e9c89b0f7ae6fb0f4c0~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_680,h_383,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lori Holton</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>