It’s a battle ground out there. Politics, violence and broken homes at every turn. How can we fight back? Do we have a chance at improving our environment, or are we helpless? There is so much injustice today that victimizes people based on race, gender or religious affiliation. I’ve been looking at these situations and […]
How does it feel when someone apologizes when they’re not sorry? It’s as if they were put up to it, or are simply trying to appease the person they’ve upset. When someone apologizes to me this way, I get frustrated because the other person and I haven’t rectified the issue, and what they’re apologizing for is just […]
Pastor Zedick mentioned a talk given to a group of inmates, ages 9-12, where 100% of them where members of a gang, have shot or owned a gun, where sexually active, and none of them had a father growing up. They had all been abandoned. I thought about this, and I wondered how many have […]
I meet with a group of very talented people for brunch every other month and one of the women has themed her year with the phrase “Get in there!” I love it – because it’s the idea of letting go of all inhibitions and taking action. Most of us in the group could apply that to learning a […]
Is family turmoil the cause of problems in society? We know that school-aged children are highly affected by their family environment. The problems start showing early, as many kindergarten teachers can quickly identify which students have bad home situations. It seems like today it’s worse than ever. More families are broken, there are more single parents, but what […]
It’s Sunday. Pretty much the only day you can sleep in. And if you haven’t gone to church in a while, you might be thinking that you’d rather avoid the cliche sayings, the surface smiles and the general feeling that you have to pop out of your comfort zone just to be told to change […]
May 8 Sermon, 2016 Celebrating mother’s day for myself is still a foreign idea to me. I’ve only been a mother for a few years so I haven’t had time to get used to it. Plus, before having children, I was the least nurturing person I knew – especially when it came to children. So that […]
April 24, 2016 Sermon When are we most likely to listen for God? Is it when everything is going great, or when everything is falling down around us? Someone in our church wisely said, “God DOES give us more than we can handle, so that we’ll rely on him and know that his strength pulled us through.” Yet, […]
April 17, 2016 Sermon The bible isn’t a rulebook. I didn’t realize that until I actually read it, because society kept telling me, “the bible says this is wrong.” I guess it’s natural, we grow up with house rules, then we go to school where there are more rules. It seems like a normal progression […]
April 10, 2016 Sermon Many different religions acknowledge the existence of Jesus, but they all have different views on who he was. Was he a prophet, a teacher, the messiah, a magician? Was he the son of God or just a man? Does it matter? It mattered to Jesus when he spoke with his disciples. In Matthew, […]