Pastor's Voice

“Be still, and know that I am God…” — Psalm 46:10   Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Per...

As anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet knows, we do not need more criticism in our world today. It’s easy to criticize anyone or anything. This is compounded with the fact that we can offer criticism on ...

“May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely…” – 1 Thessalonians 5:23   When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means? We take the word sa...

“And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.” – 1 Samuel 3:15   God never speaks to us in startling ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand, and we say, “I wonder if that is God’s voice...

I often hear Christians say that we should be more like the early church. And I must admit, I’ve been one of those Christians. But if we linger on how this would look, I wonder how many of us would rather stay put in our ...

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Though it’s often misattributed to 18th-century philosopher Voltaire, it was actually his biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote the...

“They laid hold upon one Simon . . . and on him they laid the cross.” – Luke 23:26   If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If w...

The New Year can bring a mixed bag of emotions and memories for many of us. Some may have just experienced the best year ever and look forward to an even greater one looming ahead. Others may have just trudged through one...

by Andrea Lucado   I think our generation likes to complain about the church we were raised in. It was backward, we say. It lacked grace or its theology was off. We have all sorts of reasons to be anti the establishm...

by Rhona Hathaway from “Grounded in the Gospel” I’m sure you’ve heard it many times – Jesus is the reason for the season! In one of his recent advent sermons, my husband remarked how much he dislikes this phrase. Pe...