Paul Stutzman serves as a special guest speaker to help us consider the future of our congregation.

Trusting God is the most wise thing to do, but it is really hard to do since it doesn’t look like it makes sense to worldly eyes. But trusting the world in many cases means trusting people who don’t have your best interests at heart.

Part of the difficulty of worshiping a God that is merciful is that sometimes he is merciful to your enemies, but we still have to forgive them. The Gospel is for everyone, not just for the people we like.

A meditation on mortality and repentance from the Ash Wednesday service 2023.

The world has its own ways of judging people, but generally these are really foolish. Judging people with the eyes of Christ is way better, because you get the chance to know people the world rejects for no good reason. The people you serve can bless you in surprising ways.

God is incredibly faithful to his covenant with his people, to a degree that it almost looks like magic to outsiders. But through Jesus that covenant has been extended to us. We can count on God coming through and providing for us.

The mission that God has given us can be difficult and we’re never sure whether we will succeed, or even if we're doing the right thing all the time. But serving God is an adventure which is better than anything else we can do, so it is worth doing.

God has called us to be the search party for our lost brothers and sisters to bring them back into the family of God.

During Epiphany, we celebrate when people from all nations came to worship Jesus, which was a greater fulfillment of Israel’s role in the world to bring blessing to the nations than anything Israel had done to that point. If Jesus is king of the world, then worldly distinctions are obliterated.