What principles do we as a church need to internalize so that we are ready for the next challenge that will face our community?

I was largely able to avoid politics in my preaching for the first eleven years of my ministry. Yet, I always felt uncomfortable with that. How could such an important part of human life be left untouched by the gospel?

The following statement was made before the sermon during worship at Christ Church Bellingham on July 10th, 2022. You can hear the recording of it on our church’s podcast.

A position paper from the session of Christ Church Bellingham on the issue of cannabis consumption amongst our church members.

In my personal devotions recently I was reading through the section of Leviticus about the skin diseases that made ancient Israelites ceremonially unclean.

How much should we let politics shape our churches? Many Christians feel a real ambivalence about this question.

Over the past year-plus, I have made several statements to our church about how our leadership views our relationship to the government.