Pastor Paul’s Blog

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Thanksgiving’ as in… Don’t miss the link to the beautiful video at the end! I was in a conversation about the experience of thankfulness and feeling [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Approach’ as in… coming near. As we approach this year’s season of Advent, perhaps now more than ever, we might keep this in mind: God approaches us, God is [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: Being as in… at the end of the day, it’s always great to be reminded that we’re human beings created to bring life and aliveness to one another. Michael Torke [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Words’ as in… the 58 words that just might change everything moving forward. For over four decades I’ve kept a little piece of paper handy on which are [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘New’ as in… we don’t really learn unless we are challenged by something new, someone new, some new idea, a new perspective. We’re better together and when we [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Fruit’ as in… a shopping list of the best fruit from page 168. I’ve said this before, but if for some strange reason all I could have of the Christians [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘subversive’ as in… Jesus was a subversive leader in the first century. I have to tell you straight up that this wasn’t the prevailing image of Jesus that I [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Decorum’ as in… “behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety actually has ancient biblical grounding.” Eugene Peterson and I were sharing a [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche   Today’s Word: ‘Memoriam’ as in… remembering the life and public service of Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There is a framed plaque on the wall of Ruth Bader [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: Door as in… deciding to open the door to your life today; as in making the decision to walk deeply into it. Now, imagine (metaphorically, of course) the [...]