Pastor Tom's Community

Today, your assignment it to see the spark in someone in whom you do not expect a spark.

  I don't argue much. There's no future in it. Read my words carefully. I choose them carefully most of the time. There are nuances, but not usually implications. There is exploratory territory, but I do not make all your applications. If it fits you, fine; if not, move on. It's not about or for…

  It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  -Lamentations 3:22 Evil lurks in the world around us, and yet, the world is not consumed. Evil emerges in our own motives and actions and neither are we consumed. We are grieved by the suffering of humanity, but…

The fact that we have not heard something does not prove that it has not been said and said often. It simply means that  it has not been said to you, in your presence, or when you were listening,  it has been said on a "channel" you are not tuned to,  it has been drowned…

One must respond as Jesus did – to resist the evil, but not the edge of the sword.And King did not just stand for the abuse, but, like Jesus, moved toward it ….And led the way for each of us …to resist evil even at the cost of our own blood.That is how we become…

Unlike most of us, God never turns His head to avoid looking at the unpleasantness of the poor, the ugliness of the broken, or the raw pain of the oppressed. He gazes into the eyes of the disenfranchised and hears the cry that they utter. Perhaps our greatest opportunity to reflect God's presence to the…

Mighty God lifts humble humanity.All knowing and poly-focused Sovereign lifts the lowly.God of all sufficiency and no need cares to rectify injustice.LORD of creation, whose thoughts are beyond our thoughts ….Knows and enters into our thinking to reveal as much of Himself as …As we can handle. "He determines the number of the stars;he gives…