As a young believer, one of the thinkers I most admired was Francis Schaeffer. His books had a great influence on me, and I was especially impressed by his wife’s book, L’abri, in which she told how they opened their home and study center in the Swiss Alps to one and all, expected or...
Yesterday, Pastor John Heston accepted a position at Valley View Bible Church that will begin in June. John will be a huge blessing to the people of Valley View. For us who are a part of Grace, we can be excited for his new season of life, but simultaneously be saddened because we...
I have been a youth pastor for a handful of years. One of the problems that I regularly see is that parent’s simply don’t know how to speak with their students in a meaningful and caring way and thus cause their middle schooler or high schooler to feel misunderstood and...
“Easter is not about bad people becoming good people. Easter is about dead people coming alive!” – Pastor Des Wadsworth Yesterday we had the privilege of having Des Wadsworth, our future Lead Pastor, as our guest speaker. Des preached through Luke 23, we sang songs...
Sometime in early 2005, I was sitting in my office when the phone rang. I carelessly picked it up, expecting it to be a salespitch or robo-call, but it was Wellington Mutiso calling from Kenya! Instantly, I was fully attentive, but his words brought me up short. He said...
Today is Maundy Thursday – a famous day in the history of the Church celebrating the night Jesus washed his disciples’ feet and instituted the Lord’s Supper. As it was written in the Book of Common Prayer: Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he...