Rest Is God’s Best

I have a list of life priorities. In the God category, I’ve included devotion, study and writing. The fourth item in that category is rest. When I originally wrote the list, rest was not on it. I added it after further deliberation about what I thought my...

He Sought Me

The title of our current sermon series is Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. It is, for many, about looking for love in all the wrong places, and how we don’t really have to look in all those places because God is looking for us. I struggled a...

Here I Am. Send Me.

Why do we do missions?  My short answer: because all believers are called to share the gospel. Of course, there are all kinds of ways to respond to this general call.  But I have found that when we get away to an unfamiliar environment, where we are out of...

Love Trumps Fear

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.— 1 John 4: 18a In his sermon on Sunday, David implored us to start to heal divides, one relationship at a time. In these turbulent days, though, there can be barriers for all of us that make this...

Come As You Are

“…Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” So they began to celebrate.— Luke 15:23-24 I wish I remembered my grandfather, George. By all accounts, he was a great man...