Sep 8, 2017 | Pastor's Blog
Originally published in the 2017 Fall Quarterly Explorer PASSPORTkids! Camp by Buddy Sumner photos by Kenton Sumner Early one Tuesday morning, nine families entrusted their children to three adults for a journey that would leave such an impression on their lives...
Sep 7, 2017 | Pastor's Blog |
Recently, Will and I moved into a new house. It’s our first house together, and we’re just beginning to figure out this home ownership thing. Where we used to have maintenance help from the apartment owners, we now must research and fix it ourselves or hire someone....
Sep 1, 2017 | Pastor's Blog
Originally published in the 2017 Fall Quarterly Explorer Your church staff and the Board of Christian Education and Spiritual Formation have been hard at work revamping our Wednesday night programming. We’ve worked to align the children’s and adults’ schedules so that...
Aug 31, 2017 | Pastor's Blog
Last Sunday, Chester Phelps’ sermon was awesome. If you haven’t heard it, you should check it out. Towards the end of the sermon, he talked about how we all need to go out and do something to show what Christ has done for us. Last night at Vespers, Karen Brown asked...
Aug 24, 2017 | Pastor's Blog |
…if you choose to accept it.” The director of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) says these words just moments before the tape disintegrates at the beginning of those old episodes of Mission Impossible. Mr. Phelps never seems to turn down the director – he...
Aug 18, 2017 | Pastor's Blog, Stewardship
Stewardship, more than mere giving, is about asking the question, “How is my life to be lived if I am to live my life in God’s service?” There are two ways to ask that question: the minimizing way and the maximizing way. The minimizing way asks, “How much must I do?”...
