Pastors Messages
Lately, one of my favorite questions has been, “What’s the first thing you want to do when they ‘blow the All Clear’ and end social distancing?” I’ve had a lot of answers from different people. Many say they want to hug an older relative, or play with a grandchild. Some who have had to avoid […]
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz I love this quote, although it’s not quite accurate. Jazz does resolve, just not when and/or how the listener […]
I love The Beatles. Their great talent combined with their large catalog allows for all sorts of fun games. For instance, I have long considered challenging a certain fellow-pastor (and Beatles lover) to see who could come up with the best sermon series with individually titled sermons all inspired by a single Beatles album. It’s […]
The Word teaches that a church (and really any community of people) can be looked at as being in the human form. One way of describing how a church works is by grouping its activities into “systems”, similar to the various systems of the human body. All the systems interconnect and support one another, but […]
The Easter season is a great time to focus in on our ideas of God – and on our relationship with Him. Following are some thoughts I wrote for our April Newsletter, the ECHO, about the Lord’s resurrection as it is described in the Gospels. About the Lord’s Resurrection There is as you may know […]
Why do we feature a white horse and two interlocking letters, rather than the traditional symbol of the cross? There are several reasons. First, the horse is a Biblical symbol for the power of understanding, and the white horse described in the Book of Revelation represents the power of a pure, true understanding. This is […]
In a political and social environment where people are inclined to select their truth from any number of conflicting sources, and where “fake news” is the indictment most used to discredit information we don’t like, it can be difficult to sort fact from fiction. But the truth matters, and ignorance or misunderstanding can hurt us […]