A Note From Craig... First off, last Sunday was just amazing. Huge kudos to our kids and Kaleo volunteers/staff (Kaleo is our kids’ performing arts ministry). They put so much time into preparing for ...  Read More

Isn’t it true that oftentimes in life, we don’t know the significance of something until much later? For example, when I met Carolyn for the first time, I was a very young youth pastor in my first yea...  Read More

The typical Sunday School answer would work here: “Jesus!” To have heard him praying to his Father would have been incredible. It would be impossible for anyone else to have the kind of intimacy and l...  Read More

If you’re even just a little bit of a fan of college basketball, you know that March is a special month. March Madness is the end-of-season NCAA tournament that begins with 68 teams and ends a few wee...  Read More

When I was a kid, I would receive a $20 allowance every month. My parents would also give me clear guidelines on how that money was to be used. $10 was for saving. I actually have no memory now of wha...  Read More

Our staff is currently reading through “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. If you haven’t read it or heard about it, it’s a book Lewis wrote in 1941 that has one of the more unique formats you’ll c...  Read More

Are we, as humans, becoming less able or willing to make relational commitments? I’ve been thinking about that question after preaching on Malachi 2:10-16 this past Sunday. Is failure to commit a phen...  Read More

At the first church I served in as a pastor, there was always a feature in the worship service called “the children’s moment”. It was where all the kids in the church would come up to the front and so...  Read More

In Malachi 1:6-14, something that struck me was the mindset of the priests of Malachi’s day concerning their everyday work. As I said on Sunday, they hadn’t chosen this work. It was theirs by virtue o...  Read More

In the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020-2021, we heard a lot of language about “building back better”. This was an idea that had apparently surfaced a bit in World Economic Forum circles in years bef...  Read More

Flash back to March and April of 2020. When you read that sentence, your instant reaction might be “nooooo! Not that again!”  I mostly feel the same. But some good things came of those early pandemic ...  Read More

First off, I promise this article is going to have to do with Christmas. I also promise that the next two Sundays will be Christmas focused. As much as we all loved going through Acts, I was getting t...  Read More