In the movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, we follow the story of Frodo, a brave but vulnerable hobbit, who has inherited a deadly ring from his cousin, Bilbo Baggins. …

You know, cement – in order to become concrete – must be mixed with sand and water. Having done several mission projects in the past, it’s a process, to say the least. It takes a …

“The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.” – Dr. E.T. Sullivan In the Gospel of Luke, before the singing of angels …

Grace and peace, friends. Last Sunday, we wrapped up our series Grace’s Table with a word on trusting in the provision of God. There were three central truths we found in the Abraham and Isaac …

Friends, There’s a scene I love from C.S. Lewis’ story, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Just after the children enter the magical world of Narnia, a family of beavers gives them shelter from …

I’m going to let you in on a little “post-Harvest-sermon” Sunday afternoon tradition that I have: After a blessed morning of worship and preaching, I go home, eat some lunch and then crawl under my …

Grace and peace, friends. As I was leaving the church parking lot after last Sunday’s message, someone yelled at me from across the parking lot, “Hey pastor. Tell God to stop stepping on my toes!” Don’t …

Grace and peace, friends. I pray this message finds you all well. I recently connected with a friend who I graduated high school with and as I greeted him, I asked how he was doing. …

Have you ever heard of the Japanese art form called ? It’s quite beautiful. Originally believed to have begun over 400 years ago, Kintsugi involved taking broken pieces of pottery and putting them back together. …

I loved revisiting the story of Hagar in last week’s Harvest message on anxiety. Here was a young woman who found herself in an incredibly chaotic situation; yet, in the midst of the desert she …

I’m not sure if you made it last Sunday when our special guests, Jay and Katherine Wolf, shared their story. If you missed it, I encourage you to watch it. If you were there, then you know …

Did you know in Japan they have recently begun growing square watermelons? Seriously. It’s a thing. Apparently, store space is limited and conventional watermelons are, obviously, big and round. The problem then, is “where do …

Since the beginning of the Balkan Wars in 1991, 2,500 people have died by land mines that were placed during the 4-year-long war in Croatia. Some 90,000 land mines had been placed covering a 466 …

Does anyone remember back in the day when television shows had cliffhangers? Sometimes we would have to wait six days to see if our favorite television show character would survive some perilous situation they found …