Pathfinder Church Messages

Pathfinder Church | September 21, 2025 | AJ Mastic
It’s hard to watch your kids grow up. It’s even harder to know how to stay in their lives yet allow your role to change. Over the course of a child’s life, good parents will function as caregivers, cops, coaches, and consultants. But what about God? Does this relationship with our ultimate parent change in similar ways? What would that even look like?

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Pathfinder Church | September 14, 2025 | Dion Garrett
Some people have parents who they can easily call upon whenever they’re in trouble, while others would call every number in their phone before their parents’. Which kind of parent is God like? The kind who wants to be bothered, no matter what, even if you haven’t talked for a while? Or the kind who wants you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps?

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Pathfinder Church | September 7, 2025 | Doug Mauss

Play is an important feature of learning, in part because low-stakes failures are necessary for us to actually grow! But what about when we’re talking about failures that feel high-stakes? How does a loving parent respond then? More, how does a perfect God deal with such imperfect children?

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Pathfinder Church | August 24, 2025 | Dion Garrett
Parenting can be hard. Not only do you need to hold on to a vision of the kinds of people you want your kids to be, but you have to help them get there! What makes this harder is that at some point, all kids will realize they’ve got autonomy and can do what they want. How do you help your vision for your kids become a reality? How does God manage sometimes out-of-control childr...

There are lots of reasons people choose to have children, and many of them are bad reasons. The reason someone brings a child into the world sets the stage for the rest of the relationship, which is one of the reasons why there are so many strained parent-child relationships! So, what does our Heavenly Father show us about the best reason to bring kids into the world? 

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Pathfinder Church | August 10, 2025 | AJ Mastic
In the USA, Christians often shy away from standing out. How could it be helpful to be seen as extreme or puritanical? Not to mention, those don’t sound like much fun! And yet, is there more to be gained by being “strange” than we think? 

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Pathfinder Church | August 3, 2025 | Dion Garrett
When we invest in something, we expect it to pay dividends, and for many of us, that’s true of how we see church. While it seems rational to move away from a church that’s no longer meeting your needs, could that be detrimental to one of the things we need most? 

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Pathfinder Church | July 27, 2025 | Doug Mauss
The Bible contains some wild stories that our scientific minds don’t exactly know what to do with. Stories of miracles, angels, and evil spirits fill the Bible, and even Jesus validates their existence, so how did we come to a faith where those things are rarely mentioned in polite company?

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Pathfinder Church | July 20, 2025 | Dion Garrett
As Christians, it’s not unreasonable to want to be safe, and enjoy some level of comfort and status, but why is it that when we have those things, we often end up unhappy and bored?  Could it be that the things we try to avoid are the very things we need? 

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Pathfinder Church | July 13, 2025 | AJ Mastic
In the USA, the word “church’ usually means a place where we can attend worship; that we might be a member of. If the church is supposed to be a place for deeper human connection, why do those of us who attend still feel disconnected and alone? 

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Pathfinder Church | July 6, 2025 | Dion Garrett
Who do we turn to as our source for expertise in life? Everybody’s an expert now. One of the most popular influencers in the world interviews a new expert every week, and they all disagree with each other! Nobody in our society can agree on the “highest good” anymore, so who are we supposed to trust?

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Pathfinder Church | June 29, 2025 | Doug Mauss
Why does the Bible include so many tedious and seemingly random details in its stories? At best, those details distract from the main spiritual message of the Bible. At worst, they become evidence that atheists use to pick apart the Bible’s veracity. Why should we care about
who Jesus’ grandfather was? Is the Bible a history book, or a book about salvation? What spiritual benef...

Pathfinder Church | June 22, 2025 | Dion Garrett
It seems like it’s easier than ever to offend other people. Meaningful relationships are even harder to come by. It’s rare to find marriages or friendships that can go the distance. Even families are not the bond they once were. As our relationships break down from a whole host of complicated modern assaults, how can the ancient, simpler setting of the Bible possibly improve the l...

Pathfinder Church | June 15, 2025 | AJ Mastic
For financial advice, we most naturally turn to investment reps or accountants. We follow conventional wisdom about financial best practices, and we spend our money in ways that maximize our comfort and security. As a result, consumer debt is at an all-time high, and the
average American is living paycheck to paycheck. As bad as things may be economically, what would happen if I...

Pathfinder Church | June 8, 2025 | Doug Mauss
The field of mental health is becoming more widely discussed all the time. Sociologists observe the astronomical rise of anxiety in our society. More and more people seek out mental counseling each year, and mental health experts proliferate online. Some of these experts blame the Bible, with its focus on guilt and shame, as the source of our collective mental un-health. But is that...

Pathfinder Church | June 1, 2025 | Dion Garrett
There’s never been more (or more varied) advice for how to be physically healthy. Every year brings new medications and procedures that can help you lose weight, be more attractive, or stave off sickness. With such a plethora of medical wisdom, what more could the Bible have to say about health? Isn’t it more concerned with our souls than our bodies?

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Pathfinder Church | May 25, 2025 | AJ Mastic
Christian Psychologist M. Scott Peck says that human beings struggle to make a “map” of the world that helps them understand and wisely navigate life. It can be tempting to be like Peter Pan and never grow up. Or to rely only on our own wisdom. But if we do, we will always be struggling to “reinvent the wheel,” or be bedeviled by obstacles that other people long ago solved. How can w...

Pathfinder Church | May 18, 2025 | Doug Mauss
For most people, as we get older, our frame of reference narrows. Our daily experiences and hobbies become more restricted, and our ability to make new relationships withers. With the shrinking of our sphere comes a shrinking of joy. Is there a way out of this inevitable spiral?

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Pathfinder Church | May 11, 2025 | Dion Garrett
Sadly, because of sin, the world is broken. The world is always going to be broken. For many people, this is cause to embrace a pessimistic outlook! If life is “nasty, brutish, and short,” is there anything else to do but bide our time in cynicism while we wait for heaven?

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