Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief
As we braced for the impact of Hurricane Helene on the cost of Florida and south easternmost United States, few were fearing the coming devastation to our neighbors to the…
The Way Sermon Series
2000 years ago, as Jesus was preparing his apostles for life after the resurrection, he told them he was building his ekklesia or assembly through them and he used language…
Family Meeting Update – December 9, 2022
Hey everyone, I wanted to give you a very short update about our Family Meeting for anyone that wasn’t there and what it means for us moving forward. Our meeting…
Ministry, Servitude, and Community
In church you always have a minister who talks about serving in the ministry, and being a community. Sometimes, often they don’t go into what that looks like. It’s left…
Superficiality is the curse of our age.
We all crave deep, meaningful relationships with people around us. Sometimes it’s with a significant other like a girlfriend or a husband; kids or a best friend. Those are the…
How to read Jesus on Lust & Divorce
Last weekend we finished up 2 of Jesus’s more “culturally” difficult teachings in the Sermon on the Mount around the topics of sexuality. Namely that while sexual desire is a…
Ash Wednesday Service
Lent is the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday (not counting Sundays). It has been marked by restraint and fasting by believers since the Council of Nicea in…
When others exclude you…
Last weekend we were wrapping up the Beatitudes as the introduction to Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. It ends with a statement of blessing over those that have experienced persecution…
What if blessings aren’t transactional?
We often read Jesus’s intro to the Sermon on the Mount as a list of things that you must do in order to be blessed but what if that wasn’t…
You will get what you want…most of the time.
“You will get what you want…most of the time.” Of course there are always qualifiers to that kind of blanket statement. I may want a Dodge Durango Hellcat but I…
Does truth matter?
There’s a video floating around of Keanu Reeves talking about a conversation he had over dinner with a friend’s kids about The Matrix. They hadn’t seen the films and so…
Is ‘Deconstruction’ a bad word?
If you google most anything on church trends right now, you’ll find some statistic or blog post on the declining church. Pew Research regularly conducts surveys on “The Rise of…