Pastor Tom's Community

  I run, I leap, I fall, I plunge into the mystery. Certainty with redundancy has lost its radiance. It retains no power to attract my heart. Mystery envelops divinity and Divinity envelops mystery. Into that cloud I must go without hesitation In trepidation. I shall be at home there, drawn to God By God.…

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” – Luke 19:10 Gru, is a super-villain, in the 2010 film, "Despicable Me," who adopts three girls. His motives are entirely self-serving, but something happens. The little girls love him into being and he grows to love them. Love…

  Let me see if I get this flow correctly from Luke 17:1-10. If we follow the implications, the conversation might be something like this: 1) First – Jesus says to avoid sin, never be a stumbling block for others, and seek reconciliation and offer forgiveness as many times as necessary whenever we are offended.…

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." – I Corinthians 3:18 Refraction is a process that takes place when light changes mediums, passing through a less dense medium…

We are commissioned and challenged to ask ourselves what that means in our context, moment by moment, day by day. As we speak truth to power, let us do so with our own deeds, choices, and lives as well as with our words.

"By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on top of his staff." – Hebrews 11:21 (NKJV) He worshiped, leaning … Faith, in itself, is a kind of leaning. Blessing others, we lean into them. Proclaiming the blessing as if already accomplished, is a leaning into…

The secret of endurance as discovered by Moses … "he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:27b, NKJV) Seeing the invisible God. It really goes to the heart of faith for people of faith. We deal in that realm that an outsider might legitimately view as subjective … and yet we see. All…

This Thanksgiving, while giving thanks for our executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government, it is in a context of prayer, petition, and intercession that it will insure a level of peace for us to grow in grace so that God’s purpose to save humanity and reveal His truth will be furthered. To pray for…

  Waves sweeping,Ship sinking,Footholds giving way,Still the music plays.Resistance tempers strings,Prompts the resonating vibrations. Art without pain,Music without suffering,Oxymoronic monotonicSilence.Titanic dangers surround the emerging soundOf sweet assurance …Nearer, my God, to Thee.       unsplash-logoMourad Saadi