'A Winter Word: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things'

In this video, I share Psalm 139, the life of David, and a bit of my personal story to remind us that God knows us and chooses to use us, ordinary though we are, to accomplish His plans and declare His glory.

Blessings, indeed!  

Pastor Sam

A Word for 2025: Circumstance and the Goodness of God

Happy 2025, FRIENDS. 

In this video, I share a word and reminder regarding our faithfulness to God and His promises, regardless of circumstance.  

I have discovered that faith in God is not always easy, especially for those tempted to live as if 'we' are in control. This said, here's a message for ALL of us.

Pastor Sam

September 11, 2024 - Twenty Three Years & Not Forgotten

Twenty Three years ago today I was in New York City, staying at 7th and B Avenue in New York City's Lower East Side. In this video, I share a few thoughts from my journal regarding this day that changed all of us.

Pastor Sam

Things I Learned from Dad - A Fathers Day Reflection

My Dad passed from this life to heaven 35 years ago this July. I still miss him. But, I am grateful that so much of who I am today came from his influence. Dad loved Jesus and he loved us, and that love impacted me greatly.  

In this video I share a memory - a story of my first communion - and Dad's advice to me as a brand new Christian that I just follow him. 

From Easter 1989 to Easter 2024 - He is Risen, Indeed!

Palm Sunday, 2024

Palm Sunday reminds us of how quickly we can turn from worship of God to other things. In this video, I share a few thoughts on how our understanding of this can open some new doors.

Pastor Sam 

Who are you? God knows - and that's good!

In Genesis 32, vv. 24 - 30 we find the story of Jacob wrestling with God. 

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

When God asked Jacob, 'What's your name?' It was a question really asking... 'Who are you?' The answer was known by God - but Jacob's admission of the truth became his place of beginning.  

Check out my video for a few words of encouragement on how answering this for ourselves can become our place of beginning as well.  

Blessings, 

Pastor Sam