Pastor Tom's Community

  I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming. I am dreaming within a dream of dreams yet to be. My heart is full of emptiness being filled and refilled. My life is an adventure where impossibilities unfold into realities. I am wake-walking. Nothing is asleep within me. Wake-walking and…

“And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord …” – Luke 1:46 The Magnificat remains one of the most glorious expressions of praise in all of musical literature. Perhaps, someday, in Heaven, God will allow us to hear a replay of the day Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth or the day the angel visited…

"But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went. – 2 Samuel 15:30 ESV It was more than just a blip in his life.…

  Long title … More in the sub-title. How can you be prophetic in the moment and on-topic without reverting to topical messages?  You are feeling overwhelmed, beleaguered, and conflicted. If you are called to receive a message and deliver it, you will either do so or not. If you do, you cannot calculate the…

Are you up yet? Are you awake?How about those feet? Any tappin' happening?Are you ready for the day? Have you met the Master?It's still early. There's still hope for today.Let's do it!    

Few of us experience such a dramatic choice or challenge – the face almost certain death for an ideal, a dream, or the call to take a stand … … or for glory! Consider if you are prepared to die. From the 1989 film, Glory starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, we see a prayer…

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't." - Clarence S. Darrow I guess I'll have to wait 16 years to find out, but I do not believe that is true in all…

  You've got to keep going on, my friend.Somebody is in a storm today. I just know it is true.In my spirit, His Spirit is praying for you.I don't have to know … but if you want to tell me, you can and I will pray more.I just know that this is for someone. There…

  I have boxes of notes. Some are disorganized, mis-categorized, and undated, but they have had and may continue to have a function in my life. You see, somewhere in the maze of thinking that occupies the landscape of my muddled mind is some machinery that operates only in response to what I commit to…