Pastor Tom's Community

Is your work feeding you or depleting you? If you are operating within your calling, gifts, passion, assignment, and commitment to a higher purpose, you will find nurture, nourishment, and energy from the work you do. God will see to that. It is His plan that our work feed others and ourselves. " Meanwhile the…

And may those who wield them, find grace and mercy …… and peace.

… they unified around that Big Idea and ended up in utter confusion.

I hate racial slurs. They make my skin crawl. I do not use them or allow them in my presence. Yet, even living in a non-homogeneous home, I have heard them. What kind of culture do we want to shape?

Who may seek sanctuary in the sacred space of God’s presence and protection?

Jesus’ heart does not allow him to pass a man with a withered hand and not do all he can to help and restore. He can no less pass an opportunity to make a teaching point in his own indignation – even if it creates hostility against him.

Jacob was not the last character in the Bible to wrestle with God. David often struggled in prayer in that place where emotions are raw, fears exposed, and bitterness laid bare. He was shaped by these encounters because they were honest and real.

  Devaluation of life is a cancer wherever it emerges, whether it it unborn life, lives of people living among us, or the lives of future generations who will inhabit this planet. We must create a climate and community that values, nurtures, protects, and supports life and affirms its dignity. How that is accomplished is…