Pastor David

Works of Mercy: “Give Instruction”

Doing good or works of mercy is not only about physical needs—it’s about all needs! Wesley lived at a time when the Church was in spiritual decline and often members lived in op...

Works of Mercy: “Feed and Clothe”

John Wesley famously said “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you...

Love Letters: “Unmatched”

Jesus, you have elevated us through your love. Now all peoples will call us blessed, for our hearts are yours and yours’ is ours.

Love Letters: “Delight”

Jesus, can this be true? Are we truly the delight of your eyes? If we are beautiful it is because your love has made us so!

Love Letters: “Heart Searching”

Jesus, we search for you, hoping to even just catch a glimpse. We will not let you go, for our love is not fleeting.

Love Letters: “Adoration”

Jesus, we long for you, to behold your beauty, fully belonging to you. All our responsibilities seem like drudgery as we dream of life with you.

Living In Exile: “Resurrection”

Defeat is swallowed up in victory, death is swallowed up in life; the gates of the realm of the dead (hades) will not prevail against God’s assembled people because Jesus has ob...

Good Friday 2025

Living In Exile: “Homecoming”

How does God come to us? Not in wrath, not in raw power, but lowly riding on the colt of a donkey. The king comes but with peace not war in his hands. This is why the gates are ...

Living In Exile: “Glimpsing Glory”

C. S. Lewis talks about a mistake we all make; we glimpse something in a sunset, for example, or a piece of music and it reminds us of a longing, so we try to ‘get back into it’...

Living in Exile: “Cost of Discipleship”

There is something fundamentally challenging in the Christian gospel: those who want to be saved must die. Any attempt to avoid this central truth is merely religion that cannot...

Living in Exile: “Securing the Church”

Churches like Northview can feel very fragile; there’s budgets, volunteers, time constraints, and personality conflicts to navigate. Not to mention the sidelining done by the cu...

Living in Exile: “Rendezvous”

The wilderness can be a terrifying place. Whether it is wind and waves, hunger and temptation, or loneliness and rejection the place of exile is unsettling. In that place God’s ...

Living In Exile: “Multiplying Gifts”

The eyes of the flesh or the eyes of the kingdom; with which set of eyes will we look at life and ministry? Its an essential question to ask and answer as we live in our place o...

In All Things Charity: “Passing Judgment”

Love means thinking more about the other person than ourselves and once we begin to do that then our assessment of them compared to “me” shifts radically. Only in this way can w...

In All Things Charity: “Overcoming Evil with Good”

What kind of character do we need to have to be the type of person who can practice charity in all circumstances? The short answer, of course, is to have Jesus’s own character. ...

In All Things Charity: “Ending Disputes”

There is something far more important than being found to be in the right; namely, the kingdom of God. The church —this complex of new social relationships—is the icon of God’s ...

In All Things Charity: “Speak to Them”

“Fight, flight, freeze, or appease,” are normal ways for our culture to handle conflict. While there may be merit cancelling abusive people or unfriending toxic people, the chur...

In All Things Charity: First Things First

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity,” is a phrase that sums up John Wesley’s practical theology. Charity in Wesley’s day means “love.” In s...

Sojourners: “Putting Down Roots”

God is the promise giver! So much of faith is a promise of things to come, but we can know these will be fulfilled because he gives us a pledge here and now. Jesus is our securi...