Pastor Tom's Community

"You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you."   The horns of the wicked and the horns of the righteous are made of the same sort of stuff, but express different approaches to what they represent, honor and power.   The righteous seldom strut their stuff. The wicked seldom cease.   One…

  1. You can't rest on the laurels of your first half of life.   2. You can't get discouraged by a slow start.   3. Keep playing till the end, even into overtime because: YOU ARE ALWAYS IN OVERTIME.   4. Your second half may be better than the first.   5. You may…

If you believe …

"I believe; help my unbelief!" (See the text in Mark 9:14-29) Here is the key to the lesson Jesus is teaching His disciples when they asked why they could not help the man and his boy. After all, they believed and Jesus had said that all things were possible to those who believed.   But…

    We are thirsting for something and may not know what it is. We think we know. We think it might be a righteousness that we can produce with a little more effort. It might be a holiness that requires that we say just the right words and do just the right things. We…

  I am awake. What a delightful surprise, A twist of events that I embrace. I would say shocking, but that would mean a stopping. It is a stirring.   I greet this morning with wonder and anticipation. For those who wondered, I am well. For those who assumed it was so, it is. For…

Not FIENDS, now that I have your attention, but FRIENDS. The polarization of our times and positions has widened the gap between us in this country to the place where we are finding it increasingly difficult to discern the logic and good intentions of our intellectual and ideological adversaries. We do not even want to…

Our community has recently engaged in 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting.  It was a wonderful time. we had 21 nightly virtual prayer meetings in a variety of churches across our city. Thousands attended and prayed across denominational, ethnic, cultural, and geographical lines. That emphasis closed out Sunday night, but it does not mean we…

    We are demonstration laboratories for the truth that we embrace, internalize, and profess.   What we add is conviction, attitude, and action.   These gather under the broad yet specific category of faith. They, in turn, by the grace and power of God, contribute the twin evidences of credibility and authenticity through the…

  And then you figure out what you are thinking! I was asked a question a few years ago and  I was surprised at my answer. Someone asked if we wanted to be remembered when we were gone and I answered what follows. I must say, I was somewhat influenced by conducting a graveside service…