Grace Mills River

When Jesus tell his disciples,“The poor you will always have with you,” was he being merely cynical in his estimation that no society would ever finally be rid of poverty? Or was he helping them both to grapple with the inevitability of some who would...

Adrift in a sea of information--perhaps to a degree like no other time in human history--we’re all looking for a life-raft known as wisdom: that insight into life informed by knowledge of certain facts but whose essence is the application of that...

Just as Paul wrote in Galatians 5 that we are to “walk by the Spirit” and “keep in step with the Spirit,” Paul concludes this letter by telling us that we are to “sow to the Spirit.” Paul then continues with this agricultural metaphor by saying if we...

Our cultural moment makes us suspicious of strong truth claims--especially those spoken with great confidence. We think someone’s trying to peddle something; or we think they’re not adequately aware of the complexity of reality. If the apostle Paul is...

Good Friday Service

Friday, March 30, 2018

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

When Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey on the day the church celebrates as Palm Sunday, it was something akin to, as it’s called, political theater: a visual demonstration of power. He entered to fanfare because so many who celebrated his arrival...

Patrick Lafferty and Colin Thornley will be teaching together this week. As Colin alluded in his sermon last week, ask people what they believe it means to be free and most will respond with some general sense of being able to do as they wish--as the...

Freedom is often misunderstood at best and abused at worst by an incorrect understanding of what it means to be free. This is very pertinent to our society today, as you can see and hear from all directions via media and academia. Today we will focus...

It’s been said by many that stories do best to explain our lives and our reality. Propositions have their place, but stories most capture our attention because they best capture our sense of things like arguments and analyses can’t. In what is...

The best teachers have an interest far greater than merely disseminating information or preparing students to excel on examinations. Instead they long to see their students not only master but even relish the material. And it’s the extraordinary...