Have We Lost Our Compass?

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

Tilting at windmills – It’s a sardonic image that portrays one of literature’s most well know characters as jousting with windmills. When Don Quixote is pictured as tilting or jousting with windmills it is meant by Cervantes to cause the reader to question his...

All Call

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

One of the most irritating things about living in a dormitory was the “All Call”.  I did not happen often in my experience but I always had the same reaction. Why are they calling everybody?  Can’t they just call on the people that really need to know this? I’m busy,...

Already But Not Yet

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

Sitting in my New Testament theology class the professor used the phrase, “The New Testament is teaching that God’s will is already done though not yet seen.” Let that blow your mind for a second… Hebrews 10:14 says, “For by that one offering He forever made...

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

Late in the afternoon on the first day of the week at Gracepoint eight representatives of the faith community in our corner of the world made the first cut in the earth that will support our new worship center. It occurs to me that this is the intersection of a great...

Buying the Lie

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

I was reminded recently of the horrors of the Rwandan genocide. I know that it was several years ago but something in this amazing woman’s story hit me deeply. She said that before people began murdering their neighbors in the most vicious ways their had been a...

Christmas Disruption

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Pastor's Corner

Having just returned from Israel the educational realities of travel have struck me again. A trip like this brings texture to the two dimensional, black and white photos most of us create when we read the text of the Bible. We visited the church of the Nativity filled...