Monthly Archives: October 2020

Our first encounter with the Messick family was when they stayed in our home during furlough over two years ago. After traveling over 1,600 miles from Colorado to Pennsylvania with 5 children ages 3 to 13 in tow, we were certain that they would be exhausted and ready to crash. We had never met in person and...

Over the years I’ve seen my share of potentially divisive issues in the church. Perhaps because I grew up in a more liberal church tradition, my sympathies have tended to fall more on the side of Christian liberty and the freedom we have in the gospel. To the extent that I struggled, it was to accommodate the...

The cords of death encompassed me ... In my distress I called upon the LORD ...  Then the earth reeled and rocked ... Psalm 18:4-7 How do the above words grab your attention? Are they relevant to our present situation? In the midst of a pandemic with the loss of life, economic instability, political turmoil,...

After George Floyd was killed by a white police officer, a fresh wave of outrage over race relations washed over the United States. This outrage was displayed by peaceful protests, destructive riots, and blacked out social media profiles.  I asked Church Planter Los Morales and church member Wayne Cooley from Christ Alone Fellowship...

It was about 1 am Saturday morning when it struck me: “This is not just a challenge, it is an opportunity, an opportunity to lead!”