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

Back and Forth with Chat GPT

Many of you know that I’ve found a new consultant to bounce my ideas off in regard to preaching.  My good buddy Chat GPT and I sometimes disagree—often miscommunicate—but usually come up with some fruitful illustrations. 

One More Thing About Becoming Wholly Human

I was talking Sunday about the work of Hare and Woods and their idea of ‘the survival of the friendliest.’  Essentially, they conclude that “our greatest evolutionary advantage wasn't that we could do everything ourselves. It was that we could do things together.” 

Here’s a preview of our congregation’s Core Values

In the coming weeks we will be exploring the importance of presence, prayers, gifts, service, witness, and growth in grace.  These are at the heart of what we commit to when we join a Wesleyan grace-led church like ours.  But we choose to broaden them out and state them in a new way…

The Biblical prayer we don’t know what to do with

Psalm 137 is written by people who have experienced catastrophic loss.

They have been conquered...

Patience and Trust

     Sunday, in my benediction (which traditional folks did not hear) I talked about the Marshmallow Test.  The original results of that test with children was that those who could delay gratification did better in life than those who could not.