Oct 1, 2020
Everyday Theology Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton I’m tired. I’m tired of the American political system. I’m tired of telling my liberal Christian friends that the media is being misleading about the things Trump says. I’m tired of telling them that one video clip of a shooting is not the whole story. I’m tired of arguing with them...
Aug 29, 2020
Everyday Theology Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton A Christian Response to a Grieving Country In 1969, a woman by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book called On Death and Dying. In the book she talked about what she called the stages of grief. She argued that as a terminally ill patient grows closer to death their grief...
By Pastor Phil Lawton I write today with a heavy heart. Not just because we all witnessed a man murdered on video. Not just because our country is divided and our cities burn. But because the divisions that plague our country are at work in my own church. This is not the place for me to get into details, but I say this because I want...
By Pastor Phil Lawton My heart has been heavy of late. I have been thinking of the consequences of the quarantine. Not the economic ones. The domestic ones. Though it has been on my mind since this lockdown started, the recent news involving Tara Reed and Joe Biden has brought it back to the forefront of my mind. If you...
Apr 28, 2020
Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton I have spent a lot of time thinking about our current situation. In between making phone calls, attending online meetings, and acting as remote tech support, I have come to a conclusion. This is new territory for all of us. We didn’t really have a concept of words like pandemic, social distancing, or...
By Pastor Phil Lawton At the time of writing this article, all anyone sees in the news is COVID-19. There is a lot of fear and confusion around the virus and it can become easy for Christians to get caught up in the chaos. We can underreact and pretend this is going to be gone tomorrow. We can overreact, sell all our 401k stock, and buy a year’s supply...