The current Covid-19 pandemic has assaulted our city not unlike the devastating Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878. The epidemic of 1878 was the fifth of six epidemics beginning in 1828, but by far the worst. In January 143 years ago, Yellow Fever had amassed 17,000 cases in our metro area compared to nearly 70,000 cases of Covid-19 since the beginning …
ICYMI – ENGAGE 2021!
In Case You Missed It: ENGAGE 2021! God is doing something in our midst, and it feels very powerful to me! God continues to guide us through the COVID pandemic, and I know that God is teaching us many lessons. I also believe that the Holy Spirit is moving us, not only into a new (and better!) year, but also …
The dangerous prayer Christ calls us all to pray
What is the most needed, yet the most dangerous, prayer you could ever pray? It is the one prayer that takes you beyond the small-picture hopes and dreams that kidnap so much of your prayer. … It requires us to surrender our distorted sense of need to his perfect sense of what is best. It is the “forever-you” model of …
“You have to come into the King’s presence before you can go out into the King’s world.”
Allegiance to the King of Kings is about welcoming everyone, especially someone on the “other side,” to our personal tables, because Christ knows there is more than one side to any common table, and yet we are called to be God’s grace and live broken and given to each other, so we are all transformed into the image of Christ. …
Commitment Sunday Coming Up – A Great Time to Express Your Gratitude to God
Our annual Commitment Sunday is November 22. As you know, GPC relies on the faithful and loving support of our members to meet our annual ministry budget. In twenty-five years of ministry, I cannot remember a more challenging environment in which to appeal to people’s generosity. There is so much economic uncertainty regarding the next year for all of us, …
