Whole Church Evangelism ~ Pastor Gary

From the moment of my hiring I said one of my goals for the church would be the “normalization of evangelism”. This passion to see the body of Christ as a natural, everyday witness, by word and deed, to the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, was borne out of both...

Tell the Truth ~ Pastor Gary

I know many of you make greater room for reading over the summer in general, and on holidays in particular. Pastor Andrew and I have, therefore, often used our summer e-bulletins to highlight books that have influenced us. I wish to take a few of my bi-weekly Friday...

Smell the roses ~ Pastor Gary

Do you take time to smell the roses? I would venture to say most of us in Western culture struggle to make time to appreciate and reflect upon beautiful or important things. Pondering this sort of tendency, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, on January 12,...

Burden Bearing Beauty ~ Pastor Gary

“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is...

Servants of all ~ Pastor Gary

“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 “You’re not the boss of me!” If we haven’t heard this exact quote from a child we have certainly witnessed the...

The cost of true discipleship. ~ Pastor Gary

In the late 90’s movie The Truman Show, the protagonist Truman Burbank comes to discover that the life he thought he was living of his own volition was an elaborate lie. In truth, he was the unwitting main character in a kind of “reality” tv docudrama which followed...