Pastor’s Blog
Six Things You Can Do To Get Ready For Easter
Holy Week is sneaking up on us. Palm Sunday is THIS Sunday! So if you want to get the most out of Holy Week, now is the time to start preparing. Holy Week is sneaking up on us. Palm Sunday is THIS Sunday! So if you want to get the most out of Holy Week, now is the...
The Next 500 Years
On Tuesday, Protestants all over the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the movement that led many in the western world to break from the Catholic Church into what we now recognize as a variety of Protestant denominations (i.e. Baptist,...
Repenting Of Violence On The Way To The Cross
Once a month our congregation gathers for REST: a midweek prayer and communion service on Wednesday evenings. We met for REST in February on Ash Wednesday, the same day that 17 students and teachers were killed in Parkland, FL. Last night, we met again for REST on the...
Our Hopes for Christmas
Christmas is a time of hope. If we take the promise of Christmas seriously, then we expect that God coming to earth will make a difference in our lives and in our world. That’s nothing new. The first prophets to proclaim the coming of a Messiah had hopes for how God’s...
Three Ways To Say Thank You
by Matt Sapp We all know how to say thank you, but the harder part of gratitude is demonstrating thankfulness with our actions. So this November at Central we've let scripture help us discover different ways to demonstrate gratitude as we've prepared for Thanksgiving....
Beauty Will Save The World
In his Letter to Artists, Pope John Paul II wrote, “People of today and tomorrow need [the] enthusiasm [of wonder] if they are to meet and master the crucial challenges which stand before us . . . . In this sense it has been said with profound insight that “beauty...
Energy. Excellence. Expectation.
Simon Sinek made a big splash in management and organizational leadership a decade or so ago with his book and related TED Talk called Start With Why. Sinek’s basic idea was that shared purpose—the "why" behind what we do--is what ultimately motivates people to...
Time, Encouraging Friends, and the Importance of Relationships
Last Sunday at Central we talked about the importance of having encouraging friends around us and of being encouraging friends ourselves. Most of us, I think, have an innate understanding of how valuable good friends can be. Too often, though, we stop short of telling...