Pastor Tom's Community

It was a morning in 2007.  I was coming out of the parking lot after a business meeting when an SUV swung around to my left in a one-way-the-other-way lane to negotiate a left turn in front of me. The driver then accelerated in a manner that suggested hurry and slammed to a stop in  the…

  It may have been a while since I or anyone else has told you, but you really can do it. You have all the potential in the world. You have a God who loves you and a dream that He has planted in your heart. You have a God who not only loves you,…

    May I borrow, from you,  an hour a day in 4 – 15 minute slots? I suggest that you use these slots in 4 areas of life. I realize that some of you may be well beyond these expectations, but if you are not, here is a start. Once you do, you will probably…

    Here is a dilemma: You don't have large enough blocks of time to focus on your big projects. Everything is chopped up with what we have called cracks in time available. The cracks seem to small to allow accomplishments. On the other hand, you work so hard that when you get the big blocks, you…

 "…you are to harvest the wine, summer fruit and oil, and put them in your storage jars, and live in the towns you have taken over."  Jeremiah 40:10         So, you're stuck where you never wanted to be. There are circumstances that lock you in to location, vocation, or persistent hardship. All…

If you are like me, your "to-do" list is longer than your day. We hit the ground early in the morning, mulling over the demands ahead of us vying with our dreams  of getting past the routines to the real goals. How do you fit it all in? I was asking myself this question this…

I CAN! Philippians 4:13: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Contentment regardless of the circumstances is our rule of life. That, however, is no excuse not to excel, to be all that we can be, to do all that we can do, and to rise the highest heights that God has ordained for us.…