Pastor Gary's blog

Discovering Christ in the Storm

Recently, I was reading through an encouraging little book by Max Lucado entitled Imagine Your Life Without Fear. In one of the chapters, Lucado writes, "Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ."

 

Humbled or Humbling?

Shortly after starting seminary, I approached the Senior Pastor of the church I was attending and alerted him to the fact that I would be willing to preach for him whenever he needed me. Now, this was a fellowship filled to overflowing with seminary students and aspiring mouthpieces for God.

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