Pastor Tommy

Life-long Learning

One of my most treasured divine blessings is that I am a "life-long learner." I long ago was able to put aside the obvious statement of fact that this also means that I still have a lot to learn. I am ok with sharing my deficit that I am not the "sharpest knife in the...

Leading Causes of Life

I began another book this morning as I prepare for our next worship series at Asbury titled The Leading Causes of Life. This series from Marcia McFee (WorshipDesignStudio.com) is based on a book by the same name. I stopped reading and began writing when I came across...

Gatekeepers

During our last Annual Conference I could not get over feeling as though ministry had emerged over time to mean going to meetings to talk about the need to do ministry - or something like that. Over six decades of life I will admit that sometime ago I came to the...

Love the One You’re With

I read a reflection written by Mandy Hackland a writer living in Johannesburgh, South Africa, this morning. Her reflection was on the text in Luke 12 where Jesus says: "Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each...

Taking it to the Streets

We will be preparing the sites for our orchard and gardens on Thursday and Friday, May 19-20 and on Saturday, May 21, 2016 volunteers from all over Michigan will come to Asbury and several other sites around Flint and Owosso to giveaway food and water, clean up trash...

A Community in Love with God, Each Other, and our Neighbors.