We all experience great joy in life from time to time. We buy a house. We have a child or grandchild. We enjoy good music. We eat the most perfectly cooked steak. We have a great night with friends. Life can be…well, good. And yet. How many times have we looked around our tiny spheres…

This is not an ordinary article. If you are curious about infant baptism and its history and development, this is for you. If you are not, feel free to return to whatever it was you were doing. This is not an ordinary sort of article I usually post. It’s going to be long. If you’re…

We just finished week two of our seven-week sermon series called “Beyond Labels: Who Is New City?”. The truth is we must go beyond labels because labels can carry all sorts of meaning that are unique to a particular person. Even this meaning is subject to change. Thirty years ago the label “Grandpa” conjured up…

One of the strangest stories in the Bible is that time a man is mocked by a group of teenagers for being bald and a couple bears come out of the woods and maul 42 of them. While this story is often quoted by men who have that most masculine feature of male-pattern baldness, there…

Last Saturday a group of men from the church arrived at Jacque’s place to load up a moving truck and take all her belongings to her new home where they would unload it. This was after numerous other men and women helped clean and paint her new place. The help she was given was an…