Join us for this weekly inspiring message brought to you by Rev. Patti Napier. 
Pastor Patti discusses what it might look like when we all come back together and how it will take all of us pulling together to create a new way to connect, grow and serve. She also encourages all of us to read Nehemiah Chapter 1 this week entitled Praying for His People. 

Many people set a goal for the New Year for positive change in their lives. Christians, on Ash Wednesday, set a goal to change our lives. Not to randomly change our lives, but to transform our lives so that we may become more like Christ and so we may glorify God. From Ash Wednesday we march into the season of Lent, focusing 40 days on a practice which will then become a positive discipline in our lives. 

Archived Posts

Prayer Changes Things

Here is a transcript of the prayer I prayed at the end of yesterday’s sermon. 

Optimism, Faith, and Hope:

Practical Steps For Increasing All Three

Here are some practical, spiritual, and relational ways to grow faith, hope and optimism:

Listening Heart

It’s kind of crazy when you think about it.  Wisdom in the Bible is all about listening.  Of course it makes sense that wisdom would start with listening to God, to God’s law and commandments, as well as the promptings and leadings of the Holy Spirit. 

Here are some quotes that
didn’t make it into Sunday’s sermon.

(But it doesn’t mean that they don’t offer real insight into the power of risk over the fear of failure...)

Such A Rich Passage (Luke 19:1-10)

 

            I reflected a lot on the passage about Zacchaeus because it has been written off as “been there, read that, little guy in a tree.”  But it is so rich in getting to the heart of what it means to be saved by grace through faith—to live our lives out of gratitude rather than obligation.