The Ascent
Climbing Psalm 24 verse by verse: God's call away from the old and up to the new, and what the climb asks of a heart on the way up.
Grateful and Grieving · The New Book
JD Bellamy
“No one ever told me God is a mountain.”
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Official launch November 20
Grateful and Grieving
Climbing Psalm 24 with a Heart That Holds Both
Most of us were taught to praise God on the mountaintop and to endure the valley. Nobody taught us what to do when gratitude and grief live in the same heart.
JD Bellamy climbs Psalm 24 verse by verse and shows that the ascent was never about escaping your pain. It is about carrying a whole heart, grateful and grieving at once, into the presence of a God who is Himself the mountain.
- Why gratitude is not denial and grief is not unbelief
- What clean hands and a pure heart actually require of a climber
- How to leave what God is calling you away from without losing what He gave you there
- The altar waiting at the top, and the open heaven beyond it
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A pastor,
an author, and a
builder.
JD Bellamy is the Lead Pastor of Vertical Tampa in Tampa, Florida, and the President of Vertical Community Development Corporation, where the work is building affordable homes and building people at the same time.
His preaching has carried from his own pulpit into prisons, including Louisiana's largest maximum-security prison, with a simple conviction: freedom is not tied to location.
That same conviction shapes every room he speaks in. The climb is for everybody, wherever they are starting from.
Lead Pastor, Vertical Tampa President, Vertical CDC Author, Grateful and Grieving
“My altar wasn't a church. It was my apartment floor.” From Grateful and Grieving
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The Mountain of Our Lord
Hear JD teach in the room. “The Mountain of Our Lord” from Vertical Tampa, on climbing into the presence of a God who is Himself the mountain.
The Mountain of Our Lord · Pastor JD Bellamy · Vertical Tampa
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My hope is that this book serves as the start of your climb, and a reminder that it is God's desire for you to live in high places.
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