"While growing spiritually, don't be looking for the next 'buzz.'" These words from last Sunday's sermon deeply resonated with me. I spent so many years seeking that one "Mountaintop Experience", that one spiritual "silver bullet" which would put right all of what so often felt so very wrong inside me during about the first decade of my walk as a Christ-follower. My assum...

WHAT DO BY-LAWS HAVE TO DO WITH MISSION? what do by-laws have to do with mission? BY-LAW #1: FROM SEPTEMBER TO MARCH september to march NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2019 TWO BOARDS TO ONE Click here to see the current members of our Leadership Team (both the pastoral and governing teams). ...

I completely abstained from any consumption of alcohol for the first 26 years of my Christian walk. I've been a believer for 28. There were a host of reasons for my deciding to abstain during that time (including, frankly, pride about my "holiness") but spelling them all out isn't the theme of this piece. Rather I want to express a sense of vindication I felt during Pastor...

As we finish our month of Fighting for Rest (and it sure has been a fight for some of us) I wanted to share some of the habits - holy habits - that different people in our church implement into our daily, weekly and monthly routines.Even though categories over-lap, I split them up since we have talked about them as separate habits throughout the preaching series. Take a lo...

I tend to be anxious about many things. I think that for most people, including many Christ-followers, this is true to at least some degree. In my case, unfortunately, this anxiety has manifested itself to such a level that it has had a pretty profound negative impact on my quality of life in past years. Through those years I've addressed what is known these days as "Anxie...