Pastor’s Blog
3 Questions to Ask
In the last three months our lives have changed in some significant ways. Perhaps some of the changes need to be permanent.
Continue ReadingOn Racism
On the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell on the people in the Upper Room, they spilled into the street speaking in other tongues. People from different parts of the world, “Parthians, Medes and Elamites, Egypt and the parts of Libya,” heard their own language being spoken and wondered, “What does this mean?” […]
Continue ReadingAre You A Good Person?
How can you tell if someone is a ‘good’ person or a ‘bad’ person? Well one approach currently making the rounds on the internet is called the Shopping Cart Theory. While kind of silly it represents a certain kind of thinking in our world. It goes like this: The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus […]
Continue ReadingHow Does Your Garden Grow?
About this time every May, when I was growing up, we would start planting our family garden. We lived out in the country and so the garden was a large one. My father would get the soil ready by running the rototiller over it a few times and breaking up the land. When the time […]
Continue ReadingTime To Clean Out
Earlier this month, Paul Willis, a hog farmer in Iowa, received a post card from his sister, Annie. She mailed it 33 years ago while visiting the Grand Canyon. That’s why they call it ‘snail mail’.
Continue ReadingAfter The Waiting
Being locked-up or quarantined seems so unusual, but it has happened to others.
Continue ReadingThere Will Be A Time
We are in a season – a time – we don’t understand. It will be many more days, perhaps months or years, before we come to understand the purpose of this season we are in.
Continue ReadingHitting The Wall
In our current COVID-19-shaped life, many of us are starting to feel like we are hitting the wall.
Continue ReadingAn Example To Follow
During the Passover meal that Jesus celebrated with his disciples, he served them by washing their feet.
Continue ReadingResetting 2020
After receiving numerous complaints and hearing many people agree that this year has started off so poorly, we have been given a reset button for 2020.
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