Pathfinder Church Messages

Pathfinder Church | March 26, 2023 | Dion Garrett In this world, we naturally section off into tribes of people who are like us. As people who avoid discomfort, we fear the cost of engaging with people who are different. But what if our comfort isn’t high up on Jesus’ list? What if his hopes for us can only be fully realized through embracing community with all people? Website | https://pathfinder...

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Pathfinder Church | March 19, 2023 | Doug Mauss  Sometimes we forget just how revolutionary Jesus is. We can easily settle into practicing routine religion, where nothing really changes. Our Christianity can become a thought exercise that doesn’t result in any real action. Comfortable faith seems to fit nicely into our lives, but what if it wasn’t meant to? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Onli...

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Pathfinder Church | March 12, 2023 | Dion Garrett  The first-century Israelites were a people mourning the loss of their kingdom. Living under the rule of Rome, they longed for a king of their own to bring them political salvation. Just like people today, they didn’t see Jesus as the answer. What would it look like, and what would it change, if we would live like Jesus is our king? Website | https...

Pathfinder Church | March 5, 2023 | AJ Mastic  Why does the Bible contain four biographies of Jesus that each tell his story so differently? For some of us, this can introduce doubts about the reliability of scripture. For many of us, this means figuring out how to piece the four narratives together. But what if in doing so, we’re actually missing out on the full picture of Jesus that can only be...

Pathfinder Church | February 26, 2023 | Doug Mauss Too often we let our disagreements get boiled down to a binary: One side is right and the other side is wrong. The stress of conflict makes us rigid and controlling, and extremely difficult to find any sort of win/win outcome. It’s extremely difficult to master “the craft of hard conversations”! Sometimes, is it ok to settle for win/lose? Website...

Pathfinder Church | February 22, 2023 | Dion Garrett Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.org/podcasts Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Instagram |  https://instagram.com/pathfinderstl St. John School | https://stjls.org Contact Us | churchinfo@pathfinderstl.org

Pathfinder Church | February 19, 2023 | Dion Garrett Because disagreement is difficult and painful, our natural tendency is to try to rush for resolution immediately. And the quickest resolution would always be for someone to cave: if other people would just change their mind and agree with us, everything would be fine! Or else, we can quickly dismiss our own needs or convictions in order to keep...

Pathfinder Church | February 12, 2023 | AJ Mastic Relationships are tricky because people can cause us harm. In response to that threat, it’s tempting to withdraw, or lash out, or concede the issue, or try to change the other person for our own benefit. But every one of those choices just creates an adversarial and unsafe relationship for you both. Is there a better way to protect ourselves from o...

Pathfinder Church | February 5, 2023 | Dion Garrett People naturally take sides in a conflict based on the externals of the situation. We judge people by their actions or behaviors. And when someone has wronged us, it’s easy to feel blameless in our reaction. After all, they started it! But hidden under the behaviors, our own emotional wounds affect the conflict more than we realize. Website | htt...

Pathfinder Church | January 29, 2023 | Doug Mauss Disagreeing with other people is scary. It feels like it costs us peace or connection with others. So we avoid having “crucial conversations,” hoping that it will minimize our pain. Or we lash out in unproductive ways, harming others with our anger. Is there a better way to understand conflict and use it to create better connections with others? We...

Pathfinder Church | January 22, 2023 | Doug Mauss We live in an instant gratification, over-night success society, where only dramatic transformations & grand achievements get noticed. Which is why so many of our attempts to change end up in a wash of broken promises and unfinished projects. But what if instead of focusing on the grandiose, we shifted our attention to the potential of small ch...

Pathfinder Church | January 15, 2022 | Dion Garrett Gentle parenting and positive employee recognition are growing trends, but naysayers worry they’ll only make people soft. But do they? Could we achieve more if we were gentler with ourselves?  Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.org/podcasts Facebook | https://faceboo...

Pathfinder Church | January 8, 2022 | Doug Mauss We may have given up hope long ago for any lasting life change, but maybe our problem is not that we’re too weak-willed. Maybe we just need a healthy dose of realism when it comes to what it is we’re trying to change in the first place.  Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinders...

Pathfinder Church | January 1, 2023 | AJ Mastic What do you really want? Most of us are driven by what we don’t want more than what we do want, which creates a fuzzy picture of our desired future (vision) and leaves us relying on fear and shame as our motivators. How can being clear on this one question, “What do I really want?” be a game changer? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving...

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Pathfinder Church | December 24, 2022 Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.org/podcasts Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Instagram |  https://instagram.com/pathfinderstl St. John School | https://stjls.org Contact Us | churchinfo@pathfinderstl.org

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Pathfinder Church | December 18, 2022 | Doug Mauss We are engaged in a lifelong fight against physical weakness and human mortality. It’s easy to think that if we improve our health and fitness, it will protect us against the frailty of our bodies, but does it really? What if true strength is found not through denying our weakness but by embracing it? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giv...

Pathfinder Church | December 11, 2022 | Doug Mauss Our world is a complex place, and there are many things that we don’t understand. Often, we do our best to cope with this by oversimplifying problems, and eliminating grey areas from our thinking. But when we become close-minded and rigid, are we also closing ourselves off from God’s work in our lives? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Gi...

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Pathfinder Church | December 4, 2022 | Dion Garrett It’s that time of the year when many families gather together, bringing feelings of joy, dread, or both! When God created humanity, He said that “it is not good” for us to be alone; yet the relationships we build are always imperfect. Why did God wire us with a deep emotional need for community that seems impossible for others to fully meet? Are...

Pathfinder Church | November 27, 2022 | AJ Mastic All it takes is a birthday or a tragedy to remind us that life is short. We try to make the most of life by saying yes to a wide array of activites, experiences, and people, because part of us believes that a full life means a full calendar. Yet, isn’t there a point, where the more things we add to our lives, the more we diminish our quality of lif...