We are celebrating Thanksgiving, so I am thinking of gratitude. I am grateful for the gift of faith, and for a Savior who who continues to save me from myself and my sin. I am grateful to God for all his goodness to me in this last year, one that has been filled with abundant grace […]
Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving we celebrate what we call “Stewardship Weekend.” It’s the one weekend of the year when we talk about giving here to this local church community. We talk about money all the time, because Jesus did. But we only talk about giving to Nativity once a year. We don’t […]
This is an open memo to all of our volunteer ministry leaders and staff about a significant change in our program for 2011. In the past couple of years we have found ourselves struggling with the admittedly happy problem of church growth and the lack of space this creates on our campus. How do we […]
We are in the 4th week of our series all about priorities. Priorities always come down to time and money. How we use our time and how we use our money tell the story about what our priorities are. The past three weeks we’ve been talking about time, and giving some of our time to […]
At Jericho there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him Luke 19.2-4 We are in the third […]
Today we are in the second week of our current series all about getting life in order by setting priorities. Let me just be honest and up front and go ahead and admit that I’m good at this. Its not boasting to acknowledge you’re good at something, and I am definitely good at setting […]
Today we start a new series all about getting life in order, by establishing the correct priorities. It’s a topic that is of great interest to me, so I am really looking forward to this series. Jesus gives us some simple, solid advice on the subject: Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will […]
My friend Perry Noble, who is Pastor of an amazing church called NewSpring, is also a kind of professional cheerleader for other Pastors. We’re not really friends, I’ve never actually even met him, I just like reading his blog. Below is a summary of a recent post he made that is applicable to all […]
Some days are just more interesting than others. Yesterday was one of those days for me. Our Missions Director, Brian Crook, and the co-Chair of our Strategic Planning Team, Jim Hayden, spent the day touring Catholic Charities programs and services in and around Baltimore. Our guide was Nativity Parishioner Bill McCarthy, who is the […]
We are already in the fourth week of our series on anger, and I’ve heard a lot of people talking about it. A woman stopped me in Starbucks and started talking about it, and another person joined in too. A young man was telling me his mother sat him down to have a long conversation […]
