Musings

By Sean Dietrich I am a dropout. I grew up pretty hard. I am an educational failure. I had few academic opportunities. As a result, I am a very slow reader, and an even wurse speler. This is because, after my father died, my family hit rock bottom. My mother...

By Kirk McCarley I first met Bob over 20 years ago in a Spinning Group Exercise Class.  Even then I admired the passion and vigor with which he attacked each gathering, coupling those characteristics with a light, self-deprecating sense of humor. After a few years, Bob allowed that he was thinking about...

By Pastor Dave Holland “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came...

By Victoria Ostrosky Barnabas is mentioned about a half dozen times in the Book of Acts.  He was the guy who accompanied the Apostle Paul on missionary journeys, planting churches together.  Barnabas also included a young John Mark in the group.  At some point, John Mark deserted them and went...

By Pastor Dave Holland Imagine a God who moves the moon that guides the ocean waves to break on our shores. Imagine a God who flicked a match igniting the Sun into a blazing ball of fire, heating a solar system, producing a planet as an incubator for humanity. Imagine...

By Victoria Ostrosky I remember coming across a statement by a preacher who lived in the last century.  He was expressing his position on prayer for healing.  He believed it was detrimental to the sick person to pray for their healing because their suffering and pain were more important to...

By Pastor Dave Holland “Jesus told this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — robbers, evildoers, adulterers —...

By Kirk McCarley If you have been around young children much, you’ll know that one of their first organized athletic activities is soccer.  At the ages of four or five, their attention is centralized.  That is to say that the tendency of young girls and boys is to gravitate towards the crowd,...

By Sean Dietrich Willie Nelson is on my radio. He is singing one of my favorite songs. “In the twilight glow I see her, “Blue eyes crying in the rain, “When we kissed goodbye and parted, “I knew we’d never meet again…” I turn it up because I am a sucker...

By Victoria Ostrosky “Follow Me.”  Those were life-changing words to the Twelve Disciples.  Each one heard the invitation, and each one answered.  But what did those words really mean to those men?  They walked away from their professions and homes, friends and ambitions.  They traded their dreams for Jesus.  And...