These past few weeks of streaming our services have meant an incredible amount of effort from a group of people that you may never have met or heard of. I want to take some time to introduce these Chapel-Heroes to you! First, I want to introduce you to Blaine Staub, who is our Production Director. […]
Sleep on This: Hanging on hope (April 23)
Good evening, friend! I usually begin this evening note by asking, “How is your soul?” Tonight, I want to ask, “Are you hopeful?” I’ve been reflecting a lot on that word, “hope.” I didn’t realize just how prominent a theme it is in scripture. I know that I’ve never spent more time thinking about hope […]
Sleep on This: Hope – faith in the future tense (April 22)
Good evening, friend. Our Gig Harbor home of 28 years, the one in which we raised our children, was a split-level house. When you walked in the front door, there were five steps facing you that led up to a large, open area. One of my fondest memories of that place is coming home from […]
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Sleep on This: Biblical hope (April 21)
Good evening, friend! This week, we are basking in one of the great biblical ideas: hope! In 1 Corinthians 13:13, the Apostle Paul lists the supreme Triumvirate of Christian qualities: faith, hope, and love. Of course, “Love” ends up being the number one draft pick, but hope is right up there! And who couldn’t use […]
Sleep on This: Dum Spiro Spero (April 20)
Good evening, friend! How is your soul this night? I trust it’s well in part because we worshipped together yesterday! It blesses me to see your names and greetings popping up in the comment section of our YouTube Channel. Not the same as sitting next to each other in church, of course, but still a […]
The Golden Rule
On Easter Sunday afternoon, our neighborhood had an Easter parade. I might say more of this in another forum, but suffice it to say, it was a delightful, unprecedented event in which many of us left our homes and walked through our streets…six feet apart, of course…greeting those who chose not to walk but were […]
Sleep on This: Character (April 17)
Good evening, friend! How is your soul this night? We have now completed three weeks of these nightly check-ins (or pastoral tuck-ins, as one reader described this blog—I liked that!) I asked Bekah in our communications department to analyze the response to the Sleep on This nightly blog. To my amazement, she told me that […]
Sleep on This: hupomone (April 16)
Good evening, friend! I’ve noticed one of our hummingbirds hanging around lately. Hummingbirds flit; darting from thing to thing, snatching quick sips of fortifying nectar. It works for them, apparently. But there are times when we need to loiter. And the passage of scripture I’ve introduced this week is not “flittable;” it deserves loitering. The […]
Sleep on This: God the alchemist (April 15)
Good evening, friend! Do you remember the meaning of “alchemy” from your history lessons? It was a medieval forerunner to chemistry in which the practitioner sought to turn common metals such as lead into a precious metal such as gold. Of course, it was quackery but that didn’t stop them from trying. Delightfully, God is […]
Sleep on This: Wasting pain (April 14)
Good evening, friend: How is your soul? Whatever its state, it cannot but have been helped by these gorgeous, gorgeous days. Drink in the beauty of God’s creation as you continue to live into this new pace of life. For me, one of the most captivating verses in the Psalms is found in Psalm 56:8. […]