Life is full of frustrations. People disappoint us. Circumstances don’t always go our way. Things seem to get out of control and we can become impatient. Patience is not so much a matter of controlling those inner impatient urges as it is the Fruit...

The biblical idea of peace is more than the absence of conflict. Hebrew-speaking people have a word for it… SHALOM! This word covers a wide range including the idea of totality, completeness, success, fulfillment, wholeness, harmony, tranquility,...

There’s a big difference between true joy and happiness. Happiness happens to be fickle, temporary, and dependent on positive circumstances. It is elusive, that’s why we try to pursue it. Joy does not depend on circumstance. Joy is the presence...

Everyone needs love. Without love a person cannot thrive and flourish, and life was never meant to be lived without love. True love is not so much what you get from other people as what you give away. But you cannot give away something you don’t...

True Christian commitment begins before any commitment on our part. It begins with God’s commitment to us. Freely and passionately God committed himself to the people He created and who fell from original perfection. God’s was and is a...

During Founders Month we have been telling our Ablaze story, how God gave the idea and put all the pieces together to bring us to where we are. We don’t yet know details of the future script, but it is all there in the heart and mind of God who has...

Our journey into the future has much more going for it as we launch into 2020. God provides the GPS (God positioning system?) of our journey. He shows us our destination. He takes us in hand to guide us. When we get off the correct path the Holy...

We will celebrate the founding of Ablaze Church, hearing the story of the original vision and how God blessed and nurtured that vision in the pastor and people of Our Savior Lutheran. We will also look and see how God is moving now and what we might...

Vision is a view of a better future. What kind of vision do we hold of Ablaze Church? Real vision is not our own dreams, but what God has in mind for us. He shows us through the Scriptures applied to our situation, coupled with opportunity He holds...

Message from Rev. Dr. Art Spomer on December 24, 2019