Pathfinder Church | February 21, 2021 | Dion Garrett
The Grace of Forgiveness
When you’ve really hurt someone, sinned against them, you realize how powerless you are. Because in those moments, you know there is absolutely nothing you can do to make things right again. In those moments, the only source of hope is that the other person would be kind enough to absolve you anyway, in spite of you. This is where our experience with grace ...

Pathfinder Church | February 14, 2021 | Dion Garrett
Love. Is there anything in life more heavily sought and more grossly misunderstood? Love plays a central role in a Christian’s life, there’s nothing more defining, but in a world that has put forth a romantic cliché as the picture of true love, we end up misled and dissatisfied in our relationships. 

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Pathfinder Church | February 7, 2021 | Dion Garrett
This weekend millions tune in to watch some of the most finely tuned physical specimens on the planet battle it out for our entertainment. Ironically, we’ll watch them while bingeing on decadent spreads of food that will probably leave us with stomach aches. In both the highly trained athlete and the average American couch potato, a common misunderstanding is at play—our bodies are...

Pathfinder Church | January 31, 2021 | Dion Garrett
In our day, vocations and callings have been traded for careers and paychecks. The shift is more than semantics too. As Pastor Rick Warren’s bestselling book showed us 20 years ago, we are desperate to figure out our purpose. Without a clear calling, life is nothing more than a joyless trudge through a series of eight to fives.

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Pathfinder Church | January 24, 2021 | Doug Mauss
The power of our thoughts, either to bring joy and peace to our beings or sadness and sickness, is astounding. With mental health finally getting our attention, what advantage does our faith offer us in cultivating wholeness in the mind?

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Pathfinder Church | January 17, 2021 | Dion Garrett     
For something that’s so temporal, money sure does have a big impact on every part of our lives. Just notice how quickly everything changes when you open your credit card statements this month. But in spite of how overpowering money can be, it’s often the last place we invite God into.

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Pathfinder Church | January 10, 2021 | Doug Mauss
What does it mean to be spiritual? Is it nebulous and fluid, defined differently by each person? And if not, who gets to decide? Jesus came to challenge the prevailing definitions of spirituality in his way and to redefine what spirituality looks like. His definition was surprising to many in his day and still for us today! 

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Pathfinder Church | January 03, 2021 | Dion Garrett
The great misunderstanding of Christianity is that it’s not actually a set of beliefs, doctrines, or truths—not alone. According to Jesus, it’s a whole lifestyle, a way of living that leads us to a better, fuller life. How many of us are settling for crumbs of life by letting Jesus’s full offer go on misunderstood and unclaimed? A whole, integrated life is still what Jesus wants to...

Pathfinder Church | December 27, 2020 | Doug Mauss
When Christmas goes, the warmth and hope of the season often goes with it. But, God’s Messiah doesn’t go back in the box when Christmas ends, which means his influence remains with us. God has fulfilled his promise to be with us forever, which is the most hopeful promise our world can know.

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Pathfinder Church | December 20, 2020 | Dion Garrett
When we look back over the course of our lives, or look around at our world, there’s so much that has been lost or torn down. While that may bring us discouragement, regret, and despair, God promised us a Messiah who would be skilled at putting broken things back together. 

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Pathfinder Church | December 13, 2020 | Doug Mauss
Fire, we’re taught from the time we’re little, is dangerous, and most little ones learn to be wary of a soapy bath. This makes God promise that the Messiah will come with refining fire and launderer’s soap, sound very odd. And yet these are some of the most hopeful promises an imperfect person can hear.

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Pathfinder Church | December 6, 2020 | Dion Garrett
In our day, we’ve grown to distrust autocrats (and rightfully so) but regular, democratically mandated political change brings its own kind of distress. Since ancient times God promised that he, himself would be our king forever, which is our only hope for stability in a world of change.

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Pathfinder Church | November 29, 2020 | Jon Shepherd
Darkness can be terrifying—and for different reasons. It can represent evil, the unknown, sin, and ignorance. So God’s promise to bring light is a multi-faceted promise of hope we need while living in dark times.

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Pathfinder Church | November 15, 2020 | Dion Garrett
Fear can stimulate the body to action and the mind to attention; it readies us for dangers, challenges, and threats. But a life of fear does the opposite, it crowds the mind and leaves us fatigued and depleted. How do we know we’re captive to fear and how do we get unstuck from it?

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Pathfinder Church | November 8, 2020 | Dion Garrett
Anger can be a helpful emotion in the face of injustice or wrongdoing. And since there is plenty of injustice and wrongdoing in our world, we all experience anger! But some of us choose to live in anger as our go-to response to anything and everything. Our world is brimming with anger right now (and has been for a while) because we don’t understand what else to do with it or what o...

Pathfinder Church | November 1, 2020 | Doug Mauss
From time to time we all feel out of place and unwanted, like we are deficient or something is missing. So we achieve, give, or change ourselves to fit in. Some of us never leave this treadmill (called shame) and we experience the deep, corrosive, exhausting effects of it. While momentary shame can be helpful in signaling that something is threatening our wholeness, how do we get fre...

Pathfinder Church | October 25, 2020 | Dion Garrett
This weekend we’ll celebrate stories of life change, especially after a long and grueling 2020. We’ll also celebrate early stories of impact from Prosper the City.

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