Category: Pastor’s Blog
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Give Thanks – From the Pastor’s Desk
“Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” ~Psalm 107:8-9 Thanksgiving I wrote and rewrote this letter several times as I thought about this upcoming month, about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and all the…
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Theology of Play
As this post is published, I am currently at the Theology of Play conference in Portland. As a nerdy pastor, (see our “Choose Your Own Adventure Confirmation Program“) I was so excited to see a conference geared towards faith formation and play! But as I prepared myself for this week, I was reminded this idea…
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Celebrating Creation: Created to be Creative – Part 2
I’ve been celebrating this week. Through these fall months, I’ve been taking an online continuing education course titled “Created to be Creative.” (Read Part 1 here) This most recent session we read through Psalm 19 and discussed how both the psalmist and creation itself modeled creativity. What stood out most to me was the celebration…
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Creating Out of Chaos: Created to be Creative – Part 1
Through these fall months, I’ve been taking an online continuing education course titled “Created to be Creative.” One thing that stood out to me right away was creating out of chaos. In our first session, we talked about the way that God creates. Often through intention, through voice, through God’s expansive creativity. The question came…
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Ask the Pastor – Anonymous Feedback
We need feedback. As we grow as a congregation together, we need to hear from our members, from our friends, and from our community how things are going. As we try new things, we need to learn what works and what doesn’t. It’s hard. Hearing constructive criticism is often difficult, but it’s how we learn…
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Healing is Hard
On October 13th, 2019, I led worship and preached about healing during the evening Empowering Life service at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) near Gig Harbor. I’ve written before about my experiences there if you’d like to read more. For security reasons, I was not able to record the message from that service,…