Do you find yourself needing a “one-eighty” to see your resources as not really being yours? Are you sensing the need for a makeover of the heart in order to see yourself as a manager, not the owner, of all you have? I know the message Pastor Sean preached on Sunday is certainly contrary to […]
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Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Generosity
There’s a popular book titled The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. One of the ways we show and receive love, according to Chapman, is through giving and receiving gifts. I couldn’t help but think about this as Pastor Sean talked about God’s constant, extravagant, controversial generosity this past Sunday. I mean, even if your […]
Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Sacrifice
There’s a word hovering in my mind when I think about this story of Moses gathering the materials needed to build the Tabernacle in Exodus 35. The word is “willing.” So I took a quick count of the times this word was recorded in my NIV Study Bible and found five. The first time was […]
Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Family
This past Sunday, when Pastor Sean asked, “How many of us see our homes as sacred space?” I thought of the mission statement I have stuck to my office computer – “My mission is to serve others out of a sacred place of fellowship with Jesus Christ.” In both cases “sacred” implies something set apart, […]
Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Covenant Promises
I saw two movies this last weekend. The first was a screener version of “The Song,” opening at Edwards Theater in Mira Mesa this weekend on Sept. 26. Please, PLEASE go see it. It is the picture version of exactly what Pastor Greg was telling us this past Sunday about covenant promises between us and […]
Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Loving God & Loving Neighbor
After hearing Sunday’s message, I have this picture in my mind: it’s me, a loaf of banana bread in hand, knocking on the door of each apartment in the apartment building where I live. When the door opens I introduce myself and strike up a conversation. And then we become friends and I invite them […]
Jane’s Blog – The Witness of…Water Walking
September 8, 2014 I love looking again at this story of Peter walking to Jesus on the water, don’t you? It’s one of those New Testament miracles that inspires me. But it challenges me as well…to consider my own relationship with Jesus. I mean, when’s the last time I even thought about how much courage […]
Jane’s Blog – The Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness and Self-Control
I have an image in my head of gentleness that was given to me a long ago time ago by a man in ministry. He said, “Picture a person in a wheelchair who needs to be lifted onto the seat of a car. The person doing the lifting has to be very strong in order […]
Jane’s Blog – The Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness
I’m putting all three of these attributes (fruits) into one big basket since last week was incredibly busy hosting the ARC Gathering at PLC. We had a ton of opportunities to show “kindness” and “goodness” to our guests, and they reciprocated with their sincere compliments and expressions of appreciation. Over and over again I heard […]
Jane’s Blog – The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience
“Patience is a virtue” is a saying that Pastor Sean reminded us about this week in his sermon on patience, and I got to thinking that I don’t hear the word ‘virtue’ used much anymore. So I went digging a bit to see what I could find. It turns out that even the NIV translation […]