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My junior year in high school we hired a new football coach who won a state championship with another high school. We played about .500 ball each year so to improve he wanted more speed. Naturally, he recruited all sprinters from our track team and, despite my parent’s reluctance, I joined the ranks. I had never played tackle football so …
A contrarian goes against the current. They buy when everybody else is selling and they sell when everybody else is buying. They beat to a different drum, take the road less traveled, and make good decisions at less popular times. Jesus Christ was a contrarian and true Christianity is contrarian as well! The premise of religion and all religious leaders …
As a kid, I grew up going to Grandma’s house which was on a Southern California beach. My parents were both teachers so naturally, we would spend the entire summer there. The water was clear and blue, the shells were stunning, and the sea creatures were numerous! Then in 1978 as a Junior in High School, I went to Hawaii …
Comebacks stories are great! The bible is full of great last-minute comeback stories like Daniel and the lion’s den, God parting the Red Sea just in time for Moses and the Israelites to cross, and my favorite is Jesus’ comeback. When someone is dead on Friday and is alive three days later…thats a comeback that’s hard to beat! But in …
If you’ve been going to New Community for a while… you know our “special sauce.” It’s our DNA and what makes our church go. For those who don’t know, we call it the BIG 3 and our goal as a church is to “lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by creatively designing environments that encourage and equip …
What an amazing Easter! I can’t begin to thank this church enough for caring for our community. Your passion, vision, servant attitude and especially your care for lost people matters to Jesus in soooooooo many ways! Twenty-five years ago… Valerie and I started a church where unchurched people would love to attend. This meant we wanted to play music that …
I grew up in church since the day I was born, so my Easter memories go a long, long way back! I remember dressing up in my Easter best. I remember the Egg hunts in my living room with my sister before church. I remember getting a palm branch to take home after Sunday School and of course, I remember …
We all struggle at times with doing the right thing or avoiding doing the wrong thing. The Apostle Paul recognizes this and in doing so shows us we are not alone in this struggle. That’s amazing when you think about it. Here Jesus intersects Pauls life directly, spoke to him, blinded him, and then gave his sight back to him. …
All my life there is probably no one that I loved and respected more than my dad. When you have a dad who loves God, loves his family and models what it means to be a mature Godly man, why look anywhere else for a role model?! The funny thing was that other than loving God and the Oregon Ducks …
My first flight in an airplane was when I was in the cub scouts and our leader took a group of us up in a Cessna over Eugene, Oregon. What a thrill it was seeing my city turn into a small little “lego-like” town. Suddenly all big things in my life seemed so small. And the higher we climbed the …