Historically, this has been the biggest challenge to the Christian faith. How could a good and loving God allow such evil and suffering to plague humans? This is both a personal question and one the Bible raises as well. The fact is that God can exist, be all-powerful and all-knowing, and be completely good while […]

Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to the one true God and to salvation. Our culture is offended by this kind of belief as being religiously exclusive. Christians who hold this view are seen as arrogant, narrow-minded bigots because of this belief. From Gandhi to Winfrey, a common belief today is that all […]

Many question faith because they question the Bible. Many wonder if it is accurate, reliable and trustworthy because they sense it is outdated, irrelevant, and a man-made book of tales and myths. Some are concerned the Bible was mishandled and changed by people with questionable motives who manipulated the text. Others believe the Bible is […]

We are celebrating a milestone at Pantano. Today we officially open the new Student Union. This building allows us to fulfill our goal of making room for more… more middle school and high school students as well as for our elementary age children. In this service, we’ll celebrate the great opportunities this gives us to […]

It is a common assumption in our culture that science and faith are opposites and incompatible. A common view among skeptics is that science is truth based on objective evidence whereas faith is naive, simplistic, anti-reason, irrational and some even declare is a form of mental illness. But must this really be an either/or matter? […]

We were never made to be alone. God intervened in our world through Jesus who came to connect us to our Father in a real relationship. God promises us that he will never abandon us, he will never leave us alone, he will always be with us. Being rooted in God is our only hope […]

The parable of the prodigal son. Our freedom is dependent on our willingness to receive the love and the forgiveness God is offering.

There is a path that will lead us to finding freedom from our hurts, hang ups, bad habits, and addictions that keep messing us up. It requires a true humility that allows us to admit things are not good in us and a humility that allows us to seek God and give him power and […]

In our struggle with the power of sin in our lives, we have to know what we are up against that makes it so hard. We continually struggle with how we react to our hurts, why we have bad habits and hang-ups that don’t seem to go away or addictions that trap us. The reason […]

What we all know is that self-help, self-esteem, and self-control all have the same problem – self. And the great deception we struggle with is that we think we can fix our problems. But, it was you who got you into your problems. Why do you think you can get out of the problem on […]