A message from Pastor Larry: Three years ago, Megan and I went to a church-planting assessment in Indianapolis. Being assessed as a church-planter is no joke; the process is meant to expose potential planters to stressful and challenging scenarios and experiences and see how they bear up under it, all under the watchful gaze of […]
Cruising Down 16
The other week a friend walked into my office, and as we caught up on life he shared with me what his LifeGroup had been at work on: memorizing Psalm 91. After we said our goodbyes the idea of memorizing Psalm 91 stuck with me. Sometimes I’ll joke with people that as a pastor I […]
Are you a sinner?
My wife, Megan, was out of town this last weekend to celebrate her grandmother’s life at a memorial. She recounted to me how the pastor officiating had shared that he had full confidence that her grandmother was with Jesus. His reason why? Because of the questions he asked her when she last took communion. The […]
Don’t let 2020 stink
Have a holly jolly Christmas, it’s the best time of the year! So the song goes, and so it often is the case. But this year certainly is different. There’s nothing normal about Christmas this time around. How many of us have just a few less family members at the table, even if just as […]
Worshipping with Hamilton
My wife Megan and I watched Hamilton, the hit Broadway musical that blew away the box office and made cultural waves, now available on Disney+ in these strange times. We’d heard positive reviews from friends who’d gone to see it in person, read articles about it, saw the memes and other ways it had filtered into the […]
Coronavirus Update | March 14, 2020
In accordance with the governor’s mandate to limit large numbers of people meeting together, I want to let you know about changes to our events and programming. Preschool Following the policy of the Peninsula School District, and in accordance with Governor Jay Inslee’s emergency declaration to temporarily close schools in Pierce County, Chapel Hill Preschool will be closed […]
Pastoral response to the coronavirus
UPDATED March 9, 2020 In AD 251, a plague struck the Roman Empire. We now believe it was measles, but then it was a devastating, mysterious illness that seemingly struck at random and ravaged the population. No one knew why or how the disease spread, so fear spread thick. It was recorded that five thousand […]
How was my sabbatical?
There’s no way being given two months away from the responsibilities and pressures of ministry for two months isn’t an incredible gift. It’s an amazing privilege that I’m aware few people ever receive the benefit of in a lifetime, even amongst ministers. Megan has already said it, but it’s bears some repeating: we are so […]
Yearning for the one who heals
You would think, on the face of it, that a sermon series on healing might be met with a collective shrug. We live in an age where mortality rates are plummeting lower and lower and life expectancy climbs higher and higher as medicine advances. And those medical advances can be astounding, verging on the miraculous. […]
The Apple Watch and Old Testament Laws
So I got an Apple Watch for Christmas. To be honest, I wasn’t sure I wanted one, but I was curious enough to throw some hints Megan’s way and she went in with my in-laws to get me one. And now that I have it I fiddle with the thing all the time, of course. […]