Wanna Get Away?Some of you may remember the Southwest Airlines ad campaign with this tag line. For those a little younger than myself, the typical scenario in the ad was: the main character finds themself in an embarrassing situation, wanting to crawl under a rock and disappear. Then a nice, comforting, hopeful disembodied voice would simply ask…"Wanna Get Away?"The past four weeks have been a rol...  Read More

Last night, Pastor Adam and I were eating dinner with our daughters. We had finished listening to a section of scripture and I asked the girls, “Do you feel like you have learned the voice of God when He speaks to you?” They answered honestly that they hadn’t yet locked in on what is His voice over what is their own or the voice of our enemy. They said there were times when they were confident it ...  Read More

With Valentine’s Day just behind us—a day when many reflect on love, I found myself considering what love truly means in the context of faith. Not in the physical sense, but what love truly is in Christ. God showed His love for us by sending His only Son to die for us. So how can we, in turn, show our love for God? Perhaps we can demonstrate our love through acts of kindness, forgiveness, or by se...  Read More

I’m getting old. I think about songs from the '90's like they were released just a couple of years ago. One song in particular that’s been running through my head is “Little Man” by The O.C. Supertones. And the line that keeps playing is “Oh, let my pride fall down, I'm a little man."  It’s a good reminder because pride often makes us feel bigger than we are, yet it inevitably leads to pettiness. ...  Read More

While meditating on the lives of Jesus’ disciples, it was almost impossible not to notice this character we have all heard about. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus called. And although he walked and lived alongside Jesus, and was also a witness to great miracles - perhaps even a participant in some of them - that was not enough for him to recognize Christ as his Lord. I do ...  Read More

Philippians 2:5-8 "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death - ...  Read More