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It’s easy to connect the ideas of healing and freedom. For example, healing usually includes freedom from sickness and pain. However, there’s another kind of freedom. It’s the kind that involves breaking things like shackles and limitations that come with the world’s brokenness.  There’s another kind of healing too. It’s the kind that mends our […]

We were always meant to work in a Garden. God’s original design was for a place of beauty and fruitfulness that would yield its benefits into the hands of faithful gardeners. The Garden’s fruitfulness was always intended to increase as the gardeners were faithful. This same principle applies to many areas of our lives: family, […]

A consistent theme throughout Scripture is that sowing leads to reaping. If someone sows rows of corn in their field, they reap corn. Hearty wildflower seeds will yield a garden full of wildflowers. However, most of us now live disconnected from sowing and reaping. We readily access our food in well-stocked stores. We live in […]

Is there truth in the pain I’m feeling? It’s an important question. We don’t like pain, but it is one of our most valuable experiences if we let it be, especially if it is the pain of regret. Regret happens when we realize we’ve done something wrong or failed to do the right thing. However, […]

Pastor Alex shares his farewell message with us before assuming his new role as Lead Pastor of Willamette Christian Church.

We are made for and from the “dust of the earth.” We are made from and for the Garden’s goodness. We are dust and breath, of the flesh and of the Spirit. This is humbling (dust) and exalting (breath). He breathes His breath into our dusty frames and stamps us with His image (Gen 1:27). […]