Did you realize that last week’s pastor’s letter was the 40th letter I have written since the beginning of March? I could not have imagined when I wrote that first letter, that I would still be writing 40 weeks later. The number 40 is an important biblical number, appearing 146 times in God’s Word. 40 often refers to a time of trial and testing, like the 40 days of rain that floods the earth, 40 y...  Read More

And a little child will lead them… Isaiah 11:6 Meet Holden Thomas, the 2 ½ year old son of Mitch Thomas- the area director for Push the Rock.  Imagine this moment… Mitch had just led a gym class for homeschool children.  At the end of their game, Mitch asked the kids to “take a knee.”  You have probably seen athletes “take a knee” before or after a game to dedicate themselves to the Lord with than...  Read More

Greg and I are on a roll… a very slow roll… but a roll none-the-less.  It started several years ago when I decided that we needed to replace the medicine cabinet in our master bathroom.  Years of wear and tear had left it a rather unsightly mess.  That thought has simmered in the back of my mind for a long time, but has never moved me to action until I started to hear about all the home-improvemen...  Read More

It happened this morning, at 7:02am… just as it did yesterday, at 7:01am… and as it will do again tomorrow at 7:03am… Like clockwork, the sun ‘rises’ on our eastern horizon every morning announcing the beginning of a new day.  Sometimes the sunrise makes her announcement in bold, stratified colors.  Other days, the announcement of light filters through layers of clouds to give a more muted beginni...  Read More

One of the privileges I have as the pastor of our faith community is the opportunity to pray with parents as they welcome a new little one into their family.  At Lenape Valley, we mark the birth in our worship with a rose- pink for a girl, red for a boy.  And then I selfishly insist on being the one to deliver the flower allowing me that precious moment with the family.  Sunday, I was blessed with...  Read More

Have you ever wondered how Jesus was heard by a crowd of 5000 gathered on the hillside?  Matthew and Mark tell us that there were 5000 men there that day… and we know there were also women and children in attendance… so imagine Jesus preaching to a crowd of perhaps 10,000 people. How could he be heard?  At Lenape Valley we have developed a rather sophisticated sound system to capture the spoken an...  Read More