Posts from July 2025

Are we there yet?   Where are we even going?   One day, I decided to take a snowboarding trip out to the Rocky Mountains. Loaded up with my snow gear and bundled up in my snow clothes, I set out toward the Rockies with only a vague sense of how to get there. Many hours flew by and the sun set, and I decided to pull over into a nearby motel somewhere right of nowhere. The…

What do you want to be when you grow up?   Last week, we began our four-part series on four ethical questions – Do? Be? Go? See? – to help understand complex issues in our world. “What should I do?” is where these issues can often start and end, but our second question, “Who should I be?”, opens up opportunities for further investigation.   If you live in America,…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, The love of God is never-failing. In contrast, our love for God waxes and wanes. Our love for God is stronger at certain points in our lives than at other times. While our greatest desire should be to love God with all we are, we frequently fail in this. The good news is that we have a God whose love for us is stronger than steel, and…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, We continue our Mark series with Mark 16:26-42, the passage dealing with both the prophecy of Peter’s denying Jesus and Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane. Truly and well did Jesus speak when He said, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” How often can our best intentions run ahead of our ability to serve the…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, God’s work of redemption under the old covenant and his work of redemption through Christ in the new covenant are not two paths of salvation. God did not change his mind about how he would bring salvation to the world before sending Jesus to this earth as our Savior. The old covenant pointed to the coming of Christ; the new covenant has…