Pastor Tom's Community

Jesus asked the right question, "Do you want to be healed?" The man heard it through his own filters and thought his answer was contingent on his preconceptions of getting in the water. That was not the case. Right question, wrong answer, but Jesus did not give up and the man was healed. " Now…

On this day, August 13, in 1099 – Raniero is elected as Pope Paschal II, who would become deeply entangled in the Investiture Controversy. This controversy was a prime example, from nearly a thousand years ago, of entanglement of church and state over questions of temporal and ecclesiastic power. It was essentially an argument at…

The God We Worship “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” – Psalm 24:1 Everything belongs to God. We have known this most of our lives as a theological truth. It is in the dimension of application that we are challenged to confront our ignorance on…