As we talked about our subject matter for this week, Generosity, my Wheel of Fortune spinner sped past a number of Biblical examples of Generosity and stopped here, at one of my favorite stories. [...]

Bandwidth Tunnel I have a love/hate relationship with that sentence. It sounds high tech. That mystical cable to which I’m connected is limited.  It just can’t handle any more capacity.  My brain is [...]

Traditionally, most churches followed a Sunday ritual of collecting offerings  accompanied by music, solemnly passing a basket through rows of congregants. A church I once attended departed from that custom by placing baskets at [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.  May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed [...]

I have been meditating on the five situations (yes, only five), described in the gospels where Jesus is observed explicitly and verbally giving thanks. Color me shocked:  that so few occurrences exist. Two of [...]

Everything humans make has its source in the Lord, so I encounter Him daily by appreciating those blessings that continually appear throughout my day. If I’m washing dishes, sometimes I think about that super [...]

My father had a lot of great qualities, and one of the most distinctive was his wholehearted gratitude. Past, present, and future — he saw all of it through a lens of thankfulness to God [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;     I will be exalted among the nations,     I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 (NIV) Solitude and silence are hard to come [...]