RESET SUNDAY :: NO WORSHIP SERVICE ON AUGUST 31, 2014
RESET SUNDAY :: NO WORSHIP SERVICE ON AUGUST 31, 2014 Allow me to explain… That whole “it’s Church, but Different” isn’t a catch-phrase for us (it is a little “catchy” though, isn’t it?). And one of the more “different” things we do as a group is take some intentional days off… sabbaticals from our “Sabbath,” if […]
Happy (Spartan) Father’s Day!
Pathmaker Men! We lead, we fight, we transform, and we finish. But we don’t give up. We run the race. We fight the good fight. We stumble, we fall, we fail, but we don’t stay down. We get back up, we forgive, we heal, we become better, and we let Him finish the good work […]
Invite someone to “The Original Blockbuster” this summer!
I’m excited about the next message series, one that will probably span several months. We will look at some of the greatest stories in the Bible and meet a variety of people in circumstances facing challenges of all kinds… and looking at God’s involvement in all of them. By the end of the series, I […]
Spartan Race and Following Jesus…
From Philippians 3:13-14 – “…I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” Ah, Spartan Race… so many spiritual parallels in such an earthy […]
Agape Ministry Update
A big thank you to the entire Pathmakers family for supporting the Agape Ministry led by Sarah and Liza. Here’s an encouraging message from Sarah about the Agape event for October 2013. You can FEEL the joy. If you’d like to help out with the next one, don’t hesitate to ask! And now the update… […]
Growing Roots
“Sugar and spice and everything nice… that’s what little girls are made of…” goes an old folk poem from the 19th century. Whatever. WOMEN(!) are made of ideas and thoughts, challenges and troubles, hopes and regrets, drama and joy, victories and dreams, complex emotions and simple desires (and vice versa)… most of all, we’re made in […]
Easter :: the story like you’ve never heard before…
The Bible isn’t the only place you can find out about what Jesus did, how He died, and the almost-over-night-explosion of people claiming to have seen Jesus resurrected from the dead. It’s true! A handful of contemporary sources cite both the Man and the Movement that worshiped him as God and spread the Good […]
The Blessing Wrapped In The Curse (or, Mary Comforts Eve)…
For anyone who knows the story of “The Fall” (in Genesis 3) as we’ve come to describe it, and “The Annunciation” (in Luke 1), this is a particularly moving piece of art. I don’t know who made it, I don’t know when they made it, and I don’t know why they made it. But I […]
Nicaragua Vision Trip :: Day Three
Sorry, another short update because it is already past midnight and we have an early start with a long last day ahead of us. Today, we were able to visit a special place to the mission known as Finca Belem, which translates into English as “Bethlehem Farm.” There is a neat story with respect to […]
Nicaragua Vision Trip :: Day One
We made it! The Pathmakers Nicaragua Vision Trip 2013 Team made it safely into Managua, the capital city of the Central American county of Nicaragua. In fact, the trip was largely uneventful, except for a little turbulence and a guy who tried to carry-off my carry-on luggage. He still argued with me a little even […]