What God Does When You are in a Jam: When You’re Empty
What happens when you have nothing in your tank when a jam comes your way? God gives amazing grace to help you move forward. Gideon from the book of Judges shows us what God can do in our lives.
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What God Does When You Are In A Jam: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
We are in our second week of “What God Does When you are in a Jam” series. This week we look at a moment in Moses’ life when he was between a rock and hard place. God provides a way forward for Moses and for us.
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Article: Water
I’ve been thinking a lot about water. Specifically, the water supply in southern Nevada. As most of you know, our water supply has been dwindling for the past 20 years. Lake Mead has served as our primary water source since 1935 when Hoover Dam was completed. As most of you know the water serves another…
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New Year’s Day 2023
It is the first day of 2023! How will we face the new year? By being present in the moment because that is where our faith is.
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Article: Christmas 2022 Reflections
We come to the last few days of the year with an eye on New Year’s Day. Even as the world has moved on from Christmas, that is the season we are in and will be until Epiphany on January 6th. I know it seems odd that it is still Christmas. After all, the stores…
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Christmas Eve 2022
How do we find peace in a world of hate? We find peace in the people we love and in the Prince of Peace who came to us.
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Holiday To-Do List: Be the Light
We continue our Advent journey by proposing a different to do list. Instead of going to go see Christmas lights maybe we should be the light to others.
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Articles: Cookies!
This past Sunday at church, I told everyone that Rachel (my wife) made an old family cookie recipe that goes back several generations. That old Swedish cookie is called “Pepparkakor.” The house smelled wonderful as the first batch of cookies baked in the oven. The aroma took me back to when I was a child…
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Article: Making Room
John weeks looked into the origins of the word Advent (the church season we are in right now) and this is what he discovered… The word Advent comes from the Latin word, “advenire”, conjugated as “adventus” which is a combination word of “ad” meaning, “to” or “toward” and “venire”, “come” which is conjugated as ventus,…
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Holiday To-Do List: Be Present
We enter into another busy season! Instead of trying to do it all, let us slow down a bit. Maybe instead of buying presents for everyone, we could give a better gift of being fully present in people’s lives this season.
