by joe | Jul 13, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
I was recently speaking with someone about our national holidays. The comment was made, “I wonder how many people really know what we are celebrating.” Yes, we know that many of these celebrations include a day off from work and even a three day weekend....
by joe | Jul 7, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
So what is faith? Now, maybe your response was with the synonym “trust.” What I really want to know is what does the New Testament consider as faith, the kind of faith that makes a person a genuine follower of Jesus? So, what is faith? How does my “trust” in God...
by joe | Jun 29, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
I find it easy to point the finger of blame at others. This is true when it comes to the challenges of sharing the message of Jesus in our current culture and location. Yet, what I have learned as a church planter is that the problem is not with the culture, but with...
by joe | Jun 22, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
All of us deal with deadlines. It could be renewing our car tabs, getting our kids to a practice or projects at work. I don’t think anyone ever thinks that the deadline or the obligation will go away. We instead choose to procrastinate, to our own peril. I do find it...
by joe | Jun 1, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
I am sitting here asking myself, “Where has the past week gone?” It has been a busy week. It hit me that touching the lives of others involves work, actually hard work. Jesus modeled that in His life and I have experienced it too in serving Jesus, and so will you....
by joe | May 25, 2017 | Newsletter, Pastors Blog
It is easy for us to get sucked into the cultural, and many times un-biblical, way of thinking about positions of authority. Yet, Jesus challenges His followers to be different than others. His challenge is that great leadership is built upon great “servantship!”...
