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Pastor Jason's spoken word of the Passion of Christ - A powerful telling of the Garden of Gethsemane through the Resurrection in 4.5 minutes - ...

It's Not Supposed To. Here is an article by one of the great Christian theologians of our time looking at the Coronavirus through the lense of Scripture. ...

If ever there was a time to ask ourselves if we are living in the fullness of God, it is now. That is what I first thought when I stopped to reflect on how I am living with the Lord during this uncertain time. However, my next thought is that we should just ask ourselves that question every morning. What better way to commit ourselves each day to living worthy of the calli...

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Personal fear, or lack thereof, is not our main concern when deciding how to respond to COVID-19. Loving our neighbor as ourself is. Facebook rant. News of another case in Illinois. California counties shutting down. Facebook rant. Italy pauses mortgage payments. Facebook rant. With one simple scroll on a screen our minds consume conflicting messages about COVID-19. It s...

Last Saturday morning I was listening to the radio and all the news was about COVID-19 (a.k.a. Coronavirus). Italy cancelled school for the entire country because of Coronavirus. A cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco was being quarantined because of Coronavirus. The stock market is falling because of Coronavirus, and stores have run out of toilet paper, water and ha...

Lent, the forty days before Easter (not counting Sundays), is a somewhat curious period in the Church's calendar. Most things in the Church's year are festivals and we happily talk about celebrating them. Lent is very different: it is a minor-key period which is never 'celebrated' but only 'kept'. Some churches and Christians treat Lent very seriously, while others ignore ...

Reflections on Kobe Bryant's Death Like the rest of America I was both shocked and saddened to hear the news that Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 other passengers died tragically in a helicopter crash last Sunday afternoon in Calabassas, California. As I listened to the ESPN reporters and guests trying to make sense of it all, one of the themes that emerged was h...

Our daughter Maddie, a college senior, was stressing about her serious lack of funds over Christmas break. She had an appendectomy on December 1st and due to complications post-surgery she wasn't able to work all month. I kept telling her, "The Lord knows what you need." And then I would anxiously pray, "Lord, HELP!" The Scriptures tell us that we walk by faith and not by ...