by Pastor Tom | Nov 2, 2021 | Gratitude
How sure is your salvation and God’s pleasure in you? Well, how sure and pleasing is Christ, sitting at the Father’s right hand? I recently attended my favorite conference for the third time. The organization named “1517” exists to “declare and defend the Good News...
by Pastor Tom | Oct 4, 2021 | Youth
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” -Ephesians 2:10 Twenty years in, I’ve found ministry among young people to be, Always the same Never the same Youth ministry is never the same, year to...
by Pastor Tom | Sep 27, 2021 | Reflections
Do you recall what it was like to visit your parents the first few years after moving out? Did you ever feel like a child again? Did you revert to old antics with siblings? Was there any awkwardness in relating to your parents, having become more independent? Two...
by Pastor Tom | Aug 30, 2021 | Gratitude, Reflections
“I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.” ~ Genesis 22:17 I’m writing this on the day between Bethesda Family Camping at the coast and our own family vacation. The big task of the day is...
by Pastor Tom | Aug 9, 2021 | Reflections
“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.” ~John 6:54-55 You are what you eat. I’ve been trying to convince my pickiest eater that his...
