There are events in the life of every nation and generation that are defining. For my parents, one was the Great Depression. Another was Pearl Harbor and WWII. For those of us born before 2000, the terrorist attacks of 9-11 (2001) changed much about our nation, how we view ...
So many emotions are tied up with our fathers. I was reminded of that again just this morning as our much loved Tom Bates said good-bye to this life and his beloved family and stepped into the presence of his much-loved heavenly Father. As one Father to another, I'm sure that reunion ...
Happy June 1!Since summer has officially started, En Cristo, the Whitworth student meal outreach to people in the Park Tower (across from the Double Tree downtown) is needing local churches to pick up the slack with students away. We've offered to handle this next Saturday, June 6th. ...
Don’t think this communique is for SOMEONE ELSE. It’s not. It’s for YOU…yes…YOU who are deciding right now whether or not to skip what else I have to say of keep reading. (My vote is that you keep reading.) The first stage of our planned ...
Welcome to Good Friday & Easter Weekend!As we come to the end of Lenten season to celebrate the God's power to bring resurrection life out of death, I wanted to give you a snapshot of what is in store for us this weekend.ALL ABOARD is the theme of this weekend's services. In keeping with ...
Welcome to spring…and to some fresh showers of God’s blessings. Psalm 65:9 & 10 tell us, “You [God], visit the earth and water it; &n...
Unless you got buried in a Buffalo or Boston snowstorm this winter, you’ve probably heard about the movie (groan) Fifty Shades of Grey. No, don’t worry, I haven’t read the book or watched the movie, nor do I intend to. Suffice it to say that this R-rated movie has taken ...
There are times in the life of a nation when everything is on the line. Such was the case in WWII on the beaches of Normandy that fateful D-Day of June 6, 1944 when the Allies began to retake Europe from the Nazis. Mosaic is at a similar place in the next step towards retaking Spokane ...
Writing our family New Year’s letter this week I got to adding up the combined number of years our family tribe of eight people now represents in life on this earth. Any guesses? How does two-hundred and fifty years sound? A quarter of a millennium! Surely my math is off somewhere. But after ...