“Above all else, guard your heart, from everything you do flows from it.”Proverbs 4.23 How is your heart? I am asking that question of most people these days.  Actually, I am asking, “How is your heart, soul, mind and body”?  I really want to know.  During these turbulent times, it is important for us to pay attention to how we are responding to all that is going on around us.  We are all directly and indirectly i...  Read More

““Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.” Matthew 6.25 Several weeks ago that verse may not have meant much to any of us. But, oh how things have changed. For many of us there was no need to be anxious about life, particularly what we would eat or drink. Most people were not concerned about their health. EMPTY SHELVES IN THE MARKETS INDICATED SOMETHING HAD CHANGED.   Read More

“Be STILL and know that I am God.” Psalm 46.10 Before we were all put on lockdown and shut down to control the spread of the Coronavirus, I had been rediscovering the discipline of solitude and silence.  It’s not that easy to practice.  I am grateful to the reaching and writing of Ruth Haley Barton.  I want to invite you into a time of solitude and silence as well.  It takes time, practice and int...  Read More

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.   (Hebrews 6.19-20) As Pastor at Grace of Christ, I find myself at a loss for words.  Shocking, I know.  So, perhaps let me borrow from a familiar song.  We just l...  Read More