by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
Membership has its privileges. Just this past week Ellen and I went to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. It cost us $10 each to get in. The sign said that members get in FREE! Of course, you must pay to become a member. A person can become a member at a golf course and...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
As I was thinking about celebrating our national freedom this week, I was also reminded that we Jesus-followers also have a much greater freedom. Galatians 5:1 says, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
In 2 Peter chapter one we read, “make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
“The Church of the Nazarene, as a global family, affirms our citizenship in God’s kingdom and cannot support the separa-tion of children from their parents at the USA-Mexico bor-der.” This was a statement that was posted on the Church of the Nazarene’s...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
The fashion business and the entertainment industry were rocked this week by the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Making the news even more painful, if possible, is that both were confirmed suicides. Though I have never met either of these celebrities, I...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
In the book, Invitation to a Journey, author Robert Mulholland writes, “Spiritual formation is a process of being formed in the image of Christ, a journey into becoming persons of compassion, persons who forgive, persons who care deeply for others and the world,...