Pastor’s Blog August 21, 2016 “Evangelistic” Evangelistic, evangelism, evangelist…words that mean very different things to different people. I grew up in church and in my early years, the Sunday night service was always dubbed “The Evangelistic Service” where the pastor encouraged the people to bring their unsaved friends to hear an evangelistic message of salvation. […]
Pastor’s Blog August 7, 2016 “A Culture of Discipleship.” A quote I ran across in preparing for this Sunday’s message: “We have been talking about discipleship for over 20 years and yet we are not discipled.” I have also reviewed reports and previous blogs, etc. and discovered that in our three decades of pastoring Sunshine […]
While I realize that quite a few of you are away for the long weekend, I want to encourage everyone else to come out to church tomorrow at 10 am. The worship will be on point and my sermon title is “Who are you anyway?” We will be looking at what the Bible says about […]
Pastor’s Blog July 24, 2016 A Culture of Serving, Participating, Contributing. “Through love serve one another, “(Galatians 5:13)…my life’s verse I adopted almost twenty years ago. Only eternity will tell the tale of whether I accomplished my mission, but I call to memory this verse often to keep me on course. The call of all […]
Pastor’s Blog July 17, 2016 “Friendly, Open, Inclusive.” I don’t have the answer…at least not the entire answer. I do have a partial answer for the disconnection and loneliness that people here in North America feel. WE can be the answer by committing to being friendly, open and inclusive. Why is this so difficult? We […]
Danny Hunt gives the message this week, as Pastor Tom is in Mexico.
Pastor’s Blog June 26, 2016 “Well Done Good and Faithful Servant.” Two words we all long to hear, “Well done.”Even better is when we hear the rest of this phrase “…good and faithful servant.” This weekend, we say “thanks” and “goodbye” to a person and a family that epitomizes this phrase in its entirety: Carolyn, […]
Pastor’s Blog June 19,2016 “A Fresh Look at the Great Commission.” The Great Commission…anyone who has been in church for a length of time knows these immortal words of Jesus “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and […]
Pastor Tom continues his series on New for New, this week giving the results of the survey into what everyone wants from their church.
Pastor’s Blog June 5, 2016 “A Culture of Together Prayer” Prayer…we talk about it, we sing about it: the question is, do we pray? Do we live in a culture of prayer: both an individual culture of prayer and a corporate culture of prayer? In this “the year our vision came alive” and our series […]