Pastor Sam's Blog

What I Found Behind the Post-It Notes

May 13, 2025

Last week I dismantled the “prayer wall” we set up in the sanctuary. If you saw it in person you know it wasn’t much to look at—just three foam boards decorated peppered with post it notes. But when I pulled off the first note, the whole thing su...

six practical tips for dealing with normal anxiety

May 8, 2025

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Heeding God's Call...

Jun 21, 2024

We've taken a call to pastor Boynton Beach Community Church in Florida, and we're looking at transition sometime this summer. It's a good church with wonderful people and potential. I can use some of what I learned here to help them, and it's a go...

An unsung hero (who helps us sing):

Jan 31, 2023

Our worship team rehearses each Sunday before the morning service. And it’s become a challenge because our team has started having kids… lots of kids. So usually at around 8:45am our stage gets full of guitars, keyboards, microphones… toddlers an...

Addiction Recovery

Jan 26, 2023

One of the things we’re able to use the building for is Addiction Recovery groups. - We host five AA/NA meetings each week. Today I was able to drop by one of them for their monthly celebration meeting. It felt a lot like many other meetings I’ve ...

true hope allows sadness

Jan 19, 2023

I spent this afternoon at the bedside of one of our church widows surrounded by pictures of people taken too soon. Today, a grey, rainy day, is the 1 year anniversary of the passing of her daughter who lived with her after her husband passed.

Christmas Is For about Two (3?) Audiences

Dec 25, 2022

But going all out for the show is exhausting. (Plus, sometimes it feels a bit bait and switch. People come back in January all like “What no snow machine this week?”) The under-reported fact is that if a church is doing worship for non-church-peo...

I voted...

Nov 8, 2022

But I think long lasting cultural revolution only happens if we together work at raising kids with character, ethics and morals. We transform the next generation of leaders and change, by being a current generation of kindness and integrity. And I...

a church that looks like the world to come

Nov 7, 2022

God has called Christians to be about following Christ when it's so easy to become polarized by the million tribal markers that we apply to ourselves and others. But we're working, thinking and praying at how to be a "fellowship of the differents"...

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