April 9, 2020
by Pastor Bill
Churches all across the USA are trying to figure out how they can maintain their congregation through streaming services, but is that what we should really be focusing on right now? I don't think so....
Keep Reading
April 29, 2019
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: sin, confess, purge
Recently I was speaking with a friend concerning a difficult conversation someone had with him a few months back. They had pointed out some areas of sin in his life and although he eventually calmed down, at first he got quite defensive. In our conversation, one of the statements he made was, “We all have areas of sin. I don’t need to run into your home and point out a...
Keep Reading
April 29, 2019
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: time, journal, reading, Discovery Bible Study
Recently I have had a few conversations that circle the same question or concern. They all went something like this, “I am reading my Bible on a regular basis, but I feel like if someone isn’t teaching me what I am supposed to get out of it, I am struggling to go deeper. I want to learn more, but I feel like I am hitting a wall.”...
Keep Reading
December 21, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: Family Study, DBS, New Year, December 30
We offer a 2 week reading plan and a family discovery study for the new year, to reflect on God's goodness and faithfulness. ...
Keep Reading
September 19, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: break, rest, column
Whether it is season of life or just life in general, I seem to consistently feel as though my bandwidth is tapped. Even as we have grown as a church and hired more staff, life is always more than enough to keep us busy. This is, in large part, why I wrote my articles over the summer about busyness and rest. I was, predominantly, writing to myself - trying to keep my own b...
Keep Reading
September 12, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: learn, time, birthdays
At the beginning of September was my dad’s 75th birthday and at the end of August was my 37th. It just so happened, that right as these birthdays were happening, and summer was winding down, I read Psalm 90. I don’t have the space to copy it all here, but I would encourage you to go and read it on the internet so you can get a sense of it. In Psalm 90, the Psalmist, in...
Keep Reading
September 5, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: married, God
“But Pastor, we are married in the eyes of God.”
Over the years, I have heard this argument used to justify not getting legally married so that someone could keep their health benefits or even finagle the system to still receive assistance from an ex. I have heard young, dating, couples use it to explain why it is okay that they are sleeping together even though th...
Keep Reading
August 29, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: rest, busy, Jesus
Any gardener knows that if you want your tree (or in this case vine) to bear really healthy fruit, you need to trim it. If you just let the plant go wild, growing all over the place, it will get tall and bushy, but there won’t be healthy energy going to the branches to produce good fruit. In a sense, the plant is overwhelmed, spread thin, and ineffective. Why? Because it...
Keep Reading
August 22, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: busy, priorities, rest
We’ve been talking about being busy all summer long. I have received more feedback than normal via emails, text messages, and regular conversations about how much many of our readers have resonated with the things that we’ve been talking about each week. With just a few weeks of this series left, we want to loop it all together and bring it home.
...
Keep Reading
August 15, 2018
by Pastor Bill
| Tags: busy, rest
Recently, we’ve been talking about some of the core issues that cause us to be too busy. Last week we looked at how our overuse of technology might be compounding the busyness that we feel. Today we want to look at the reality that you need more rest than you think that you do.
...
Keep Reading