Pastor Paul’s Blog

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Pain’ as in… entering our own pain allows us to enter into other’s pain. The next time you’re playing Trivial Pursuit and you get the question, “What’s [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Connected’ as in… we are, all of us, after all, connected to one another! Since the Fall of 2018, I’ve been leading a fantastic group of seven couples through [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Assumptions’ as in… whenever we mingle our grief with our spirituality—what we believe about the Spirit’s presence in our grief, or why we’re grieving, it’s [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘8:22’ as in… the Gospel of Mark, chapter 8, verse 22. I had a really illuminating conversation with some friends a week and a half ago. We were pulling apart [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘20+C+M+B+20’ as in… Chalking. We’re still in the wonderful season of Epiphany. It’s okay if that’s new news to you; it hasn’t been on my front burner [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Stop’ as in… it’s great to be able to stop when you’ve planned a thing that’s wrong, and be able to do something else instead. It’s also [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Word(s)’ as in… what’s your One Word for the year 2020? On New Year’s Day, my small group convened for our Third Annual One Word Reveal Party. For a couple of [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘Stephen’ as in… the Feast of Stephen and the inescapable tension between good and evil, darkness and light, life and death. Historically, the day after [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘JOY’ as in… Immanuel, God with us, is coming! On this Third Sunday in the Season of Advent, we getting closer to the celebration of Christmas! Pretty intense, [...]

By Pastor Paul Gauche Today’s Word: ‘IMAGINE’ as in… how do you imagine God? A baby? Really? Respond with True or False to these statements: “I can trust God no matter what.” “Sometimes God [...]