Pathfinder Church Messages

Pathfinder Church | May 29, 2022 | Doug Mauss Our government has authority because it can enforce its laws by force. How do Jesus’ followers balance the tension between obeying or defying governmental dictates? Message Resources | https://pathfinderstl.org/message-resources/ Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.org/podc...

Pathfinder Church | May 22, 2022 | Dion Garrett We all have different feelings about authority. Some embrace it. Some resist it. But even though we like to think that we are the boss of ourselves, there is always some authority that we are submitting to, consciously or subconsciously. How do we recognize the true—often unspoken—authorities in our lives, and have a healthy relationship with those t...

Pathfinder Church | May 15, 2022 | Dion Garrett Freedom to explore your truest self You are a whole person, which means that if you let any part become too large (or ignore any part), your sense of identity becomes imbalanced. By developing your relational, physical, mental, vocational, financial, and spiritual self, you can not only experience a whole life, but you get the benefit of being a WHOL...

Pathfinder Church | May 8, 2022 | AJ Mastic Freedom to explore your truest self Love is the most powerful force in the universe, and because of that, we can start believing we ARE who we LOVE or even who loves us. But what happens when your feelings change, when the object of your affection grows up, leaves, or dies? What happens when someone stops loving you? Do we become less of “us”?  Website |...

Pathfinder Church | May 1, 2022 | Doug Mauss Freedom to explore your truest self Too many of us let ourselves be defined by our success, careers, talents, or hobbies—or conversely, our mistakes, vices, sins, and shortcomings. It’s true that how we use our days can’t help but speak into our sense of being, but an identity built on “deeds” will be in constant flux and depend on endless doing. Is the...

Pathfinder Church | April 24, 2022 | AJ Mastic Freedom to explore your truest self Nature vs. nurture is an endless source of interest because we assume, “If I can just discover who I was genetically designed to be, then I’ll have something solid to build my sense of self around.” While genetics hasn’t yet given us the answers we crave, the good news is that we all have a common, powerful birthrig...

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Pathfinder Church | April 17, 2022 | Dion Garrett Freedom to explore your truest self Which boxes do you check on the form? You know the ones where we have to define ourselves over and over again by how we vote, where our ancestors came from, by how much money we make, or our career path. Do you ever feel a little defiant when someone tries to put you in a box? But we don’t want to stand on our ow...

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Pathfinder Church | April 10, 2022 | Doug Mauss Leading up to Jesus’ final days, we see a clear model for how we are to live. Not only does Jesus refuse to fight the crowds (As we saw last week, they were the wrong enemy), but he also shows us how to fight differently. It involves putting away the very things that we have relied on in the past for our protection and sense of safety. But does that...

Pathfinder Church | April 3, 2022 | Dion Garrett When we’re feeling threatened, it’s natural to want to fight, and fight we shall. However, whom we are called to fight against may not be whom we think. When we make enemies of those who oppose us, we obscure the real enemy. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.org/podcas...

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Pathfinder Church | March 27, 2022 | AJ Mastic The last two tools make strange bedfellows. Our mental pictures of endurance (a marathoner finishing his race, a mother delivering a child) are usually anything but gentle. And the gentle among us seem the least able to endure when life gets tough. Yet these last two tools embraced together are powerful for people who are going the way of the cross. W...

Pathfinder Church | March 20, 2022 | Doug Mauss If we’ve been to a Christian wedding, we’re probably familiar with Paul’s famous words, “Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.” While we may see these as personal values, they actually are powerful corporate values that can work against the prevailing ideas that Christians are irrelevant, out of touch, and even threatening to the good of the...

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Pathfinder Church | March 13, 2022 | Dion Garrett While Christians have tried to leverage the tools of moral superiority and personal perfection, those tools no longer work in a world where we are minority voices. Focusing on righteousness and godliness instead makes us find powerful tools that work regardless of our status. But what’s the difference? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giv...

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Pathfinder Church | March 6, 2022 | AJ Mastic Something is changing in the world around us. We can sense it. For the first time, many of us may feel “other,” no longer understood, no longer welcomed, no longer in the safety of the majority. While this is alarming for many of us (some of us have never known anything different), are we really in danger? Or are we at a turning point when we get back...

Pathfinder Church | March 2, 2022 | Doug Mauss 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 27, 2022 | Doug Mauss Every human life leaves a wake that creates joy or damage for those who follow. But healthy legacies don’t just happen; they are the result of godly & wise perspectives, clear intentions, and lots of deliberate work. Deciding what we want to pass on to future generations is only half the work—determining how is even harder. Website | https://p...

Pathfinder Church | February 20, 2022 | Dion Garrett After we take a hard look at all the patterns we’ve received, it’s important that don’t fall into the trap of blaming those who came before us or seeing ourselves as victims. Each generation and each person must learn to take responsibility for whatever they’ve received, no matter how heavy or unfair it seems. In owning, we find power and freedo...

Pathfinder Church | February 13, 2022 | Dion Garrett None of us arrive as clean slates; we are products of those who came before us. What we received from them is a mishmash of good, bad, and ugly—and sometimes you’re not even sure which is which. But we cannot grow (into a whole life) until we do the work of sorting out what we’ve received.  Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | htt...

Pathfinder Church | February 6, 2022 | Doug Mauss Misunderstanding and judgment are words that might best characterize the current state of intergenerational interaction. But what are we missing when we fail to foster a sense of appreciation and interdependence across generations?  Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts | https://pathfinderstl.o...

Pathfinder Church | January 30, 2022 | Dion Garrett We think influence is dependent on status, power, and authority. And so, we often neglect to take action because we think it’s work meant for others (who have the status, power, and authority) to do. But true influence is the great disrupter of all of society’s power structures. It’s something we all possess and can hone for maximal impact.  Webs...