Posts by Pastor Phil

James Chapter 1:2-4 says, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” Now this can be a very difficult passage of…

Francis Chan prayed! Joya and I are at the Converge biennial meeting in Co. and the keynote speaker for tonight was Francis Chan who is a nationally known speaker, author and mega-church pastor, but what got me right from the start was his prayer at the beginning of his sermon. He started by saying how…

In the gospels Jesus tells the parable of the sower and the seed. I read it recently in Mark 4:1-20, which reads, “Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all…

In Luke 17 the disciples ask Jesus to increase their faith, to which he replies, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” Now I’ve spoken before about the significance of the mustard seed,…