by Pastor Jon | Nov 7, 2024 | Blog
There is something about sitting in the sanctuary and being in worship that puts things in perspective. Maybe you’ve experienced it, or maybe you need to. The Psalmist did. He starts Psalm 73 proclaiming God’s goodness, but then quickly adds a...
by Pastor Jon | Nov 3, 2024 | Blog, What I’m Thinking
It’s Election week. How are you praying? With anxiety? Or joy? Paul writes in Philippians 1:3 that he always prays “with joy.” That convicts me, because on my good days I can say I pray with gratitude, but most days I pray with anxiety and not with joy. With...
by Pastor Jon | Oct 17, 2024 | Blog, Love
I was recently in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho where I’d joined my brothers for their mule deer hunt. Being in the mountains and being disconnected from the news – family, church, community and the world alike, as we had no cell service – put things in...
by Pastor Jon | Sep 26, 2024 | Blog, Grow, What I’m Thinking
I’ve been thinking about expectations and particularly about the kind of expectations we should have of one another in the Church. What sparked this line of thought was a video we watched as part of our officer training where we heard about a man who had been active...
by Pastor Jon | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog, What I’m Thinking
It is said that we live in an “age of anxiety,” so what should we as Christians do in the face of so much anxiety? One thing I do is turn to Psalm 42. In Psalm 42:5 and again in verse 11, the Psalmist asks, “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed (anxious)...
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