The Divine Crash

Todays sermon was a tough one, I spent a lot of time agonizing and organizing information and trying to find just the right stuff to put in just the right place and in the end everything went wrong from slides to microphones and recorders but I think (and pray) God still spoke through all the [...]

My son enjoys watching the TV show Imagination Movers. It is on the Disney channel and the new episodes are on Saturdays and they repeat the episodes twice per day all week.  As a result my son and I watch the same episodes over and over and OVER.  I can sing all the songs and [...]

This weekend I wasn’t at Tanoma to preach, I left the congregation in the very capable leadership of the Church’s lay leader.  Instead I took my youth and about 100 other youth to Camp Jumonville for the annual “Winter Ski Retreat!”  Our theme was “Lift” and we start by watching the movie “Up!”  Each speaker [...]

Recently in my town we received over 28 inches of snow.  It has snowed everyday for over a week now and the other day I took my son out to play in this belly button deep snow. We tried to play in the snow.  The snow was so deep he couldn’t walk but he managed [...]

My sermon today was the start of a new series that will take a look at the miracles in the book of John.  We will be going through the 7 miracles and will finish at Easter.  You can hear the sermon on iTunes or download the audio here.

In my town there is a hospital.
In this hospital there is a maternity ward.
That ward has two hallways, or wings if you will.
These two wings house two very different things.
One side is for the mothers who just gave birth and are holding happy bouncing babies and are recovering with their new bundles of joy.
The other [...]

Most people who call themselves christians really get on my nerves.  Not all christians, some are sold-out bona-fide Christians who love Jesus more than anything else. Yet, most who call themselves followers of Jesus do three main things that bother me.
Maybe this is why I am a pastor so I can put an end to these [...]

This week church was almost cancelled.  We had 22 inches of snow and the policy is if I can make it to the church we will have church.  I barely made it out of my driveway but I made it. We had less people but more than I expected, we finished the series today looking [...]