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Every year we take 4 weeks away from our current sermon series to celebrate the Advent Season. The four weeks leading up to Christmas have been a time when followers of Jesus have taken time to consider how their lives interact with the wonderful truth that Jesus was born! In order for Grafted to do […]
This week Chelsea has the opportunity to play piano for a middle school production of Newsies. Seriously, that girl can play! But with rehearsals all week long, I am getting the chance to spend a bit more time with my kids than usual: nap-time, picking up kids from the bus stop, encouraging homework, reading, and […]
Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that comes around year after year and, for some people, it is the only time of year that they spend the time to give thanks. This is true both for some who call themselves followers of Jesus and for some who have no interest in Christianity. The mentality that […]
I get moved around a ton to different roles while working at UPS. I have been working for the company for over a decade now and have a pretty good understanding of how to do many of the different tasks and how each of them fit into the greater whole of the operation. The problem […]
In my life I have gone through all kinds of seasons where I have done a better or, alternatively, worse job of following Jesus. One area where you can see this pendulum swing is how I have interacted with Paul’s words in the letter to the church in Ephesus: 15 Instead, speaking the truth in […]
To say the least, the Hammond family has been going through a lot lately. As we do, we are trying to honor God with the way that we raise our kids, with the way that we handle the stress of brain cancer and it’s treatment, with the way that we are reaching out to our […]
I fear that often people think that they are going to join a church, it will provide for them a social club to which they can belong, and all will be puppy dogs and rainbows from here on out. But if I have learned anything from the last four years of us working together to […]
Welcome back to a journey through a whole book of the Bible! For our return to this style of sermons we have chosen, The Book of Judges! This book has provided some of the most difficult stories for me to understand during my journey with the Bible. Did Jephthah really sacrifice his daughter to God? […]
It never ceases to amaze me as the world at large again and again comes to conclusions about ideas that have been floating around the family of God for generations. Today I was trying to feed my mind and clicked on this video by Derek at Veritasium… (it is seven and a half minutes long, […]
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” Genesis 1:14 “If there is one single molecule in […]