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 …

So my breaks went out on my 2004 Four Runner the day before I went to Africa. No kidding. I was literally driving and they just stopped working. It’s funny the things that go through …

An important part of my daily devotion is not just time spent in the Word, but it also involves reading other devotionals which I love to return to from time to time. One of my …

So I went to the doctor on Monday to have my yearly physical. Can I be honest? It’s not one of my favorite things to do. You get on the scale (the two of us …

According to his mother, once Monte Scott sees a need, he usually just tries to fix it himself. That is exactly why he decided to shovel dirt from his backyard into a pothole on a …

In his book, A Hunger for God, author and pastor John Piper makes this beautiful statement: “If you don’t feel a strong desire for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because …

I love a story I read recently in pastor Charles Swindoll’s book, Standing Out. Swindoll tells the story that there were four friends who decided to go mountain climbing one weekend. In the middle of …