Why We Do What We Do | Ash Wednesday Gathering

Next Wednesday, March 2nd, marks the beginning of Lent, the six-week season leading up to what is known as the Pascha (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday). Lent is traditionally a time for us to intentionally set aside the things in our everyday lives that...

Don’t Neglect Your Worship | Part 2

Last week we highlighted the importance of being intentional about the “renewing of our minds” (Romans 12:1-2). We does this mean? It means we can’t sit back and neglect reading God’s word. We can’t sit back and neglect prayer. We...

Don’t Neglect Your Worship | Part 1

I remember several years ago coming home from work and finding water flowing down our driveway. Our water heater had sprung a leak and was draining down the road. Not the most welcoming way to come home. We had our water heater for many years and I had neglected to...

A Migraine and a Psalm

I woke up a week ago in the middle of the night with a migraine. This isn’t uncommon. I’ve been having migraine headaches for close to thirty years. Sometimes the pain is mild, sometimes severe. By God’s grace I was able to get out of bed in the morning without the...

5 Reasons Why We’re Preaching Through Acts

This Sunday we begin a new series in the book of Acts and I’m super excited for us to go through this book found in God’s true Story. Why? (I know you asked it, right?) Let me give you a few reasons; well, five to be exact, although we could come up with...

The Great Sympathizer of Our Suffering

Several years ago, I worked as an administrator in an alternative high school. This was a job I had spent years dreaming about, furthering my education to obtain what I thought would be the job I always wanted. What I found was that this job crushed...