Pathfinder Church Messages

Pathfinder Church | December 6, 2020 | Dion Garrett In our day, we’ve grown to distrust autocrats (and rightfully so) but regular, democratically mandated political change brings its own kind of distress. Since ancient times God promised that he, himself would be our king forever, which is our only hope for stability in a world of change. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https:/...

Pathfinder Church | November 29, 2020 | Jon Shepherd Darkness can be terrifying—and for different reasons. It can represent evil, the unknown, sin, and ignorance. So God’s promise to bring light is a multi-faceted promise of hope we need while living in dark times. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Insta...

Pathfinder Church | November 22, 2020 | Dion Garrett Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Instagram |  https://instagram.com/pathfinderstl St. John School | http://stjls.org Contact Us | churchinfo@pathfinderstl.org Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Podcasts...

Pathfinder Church | November 15, 2020 | Dion Garrett Fear can stimulate the body to action and the mind to attention; it readies us for dangers, challenges, and threats. But a life of fear does the opposite, it crowds the mind and leaves us fatigued and depleted. How do we know we’re captive to fear and how do we get unstuck from it? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://path...

Pathfinder Church | November 8, 2020 | Dion Garrett Anger can be a helpful emotion in the face of injustice or wrongdoing. And since there is plenty of injustice and wrongdoing in our world, we all experience anger! But some of us choose to live in anger as our go-to response to anything and everything. Our world is brimming with anger right now (and has been for a while) because we don’t understa...

Pathfinder Church | November 1, 2020 | Doug Mauss From time to time we all feel out of place and unwanted, like we are deficient or something is missing. So we achieve, give, or change ourselves to fit in. Some of us never leave this treadmill (called shame) and we experience the deep, corrosive, exhausting effects of it. While momentary shame can be helpful in signaling that something is threaten...

Pathfinder Church | October 25, 2020 | Dion Garrett This weekend we’ll celebrate stories of life change, especially after a long and grueling 2020. We’ll also celebrate early stories of impact from Prosper the City. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Instagram |  https://instagram.com/pathfinderstl St. Jo...

Pathfinder Church | October 18, 2020 | Doug Mauss It’s easy to prosper others when you’re healthy, whole, well-supplied, and strong, but when you’re weak, beaten-down, broke, or depleted, there’s no way you can be expected to still bless those around you, right? As the old saying goes, “Put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you help someone else.” So, what do you do when you’re just not in...

Pathfinder Church | October 11, 2020 | Dion Garrett Surely the call to prosper those around us has limits. God wouldn’t approve of prospering people who have evil intentions or have deliberately hurt people, right? Think again! The scriptures are filled with examples that challenge our thinking of how even our most obvious and legitimate enemies should be treated. Website | https://pathfinderstl.o...

Pathfinder Church | October 4, 2020 | Dion Garrett To depend on the hospitality of another is difficult for many of us; we’d rather be the giver than the receiver. But throughout the scriptures, even when the people of God are the recipients of someone else’s hospitality, what they give back is far greater in value than what they receive. Is it ever permissible—or even possible—that the people of...

Pathfinder Church | September 27, 2020 | Doug Mauss People have long wondered, is God a god who is out to bless or curse? On one hand, the prophets warn us that a holy God interacting with sinful people will always spell disaster. On the other hand, God continually describes himself as a God who is unequivocally out to bless. What are we to believe about God’s character and true intentions for peo...

Pathfinder Church | September 20, 2020 | Dion Garrett Every change gives you the opportunity to become new, explore new things, to change yourself in a positive way. While most people view change negatively, it can provide an opportunity to get out of a rut and discover richer things than you had before. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook |...

Pathfinder Church | September 13, 2020 | Doug Mauss Some things that we lose need to stay lost, we say goodbye to them as parts of our past, they don’t have a place in our future. But as you sift through the remains of what was, you also will discover things you will still need in your next chapter. But how do you know if you’re trying to hold on to something you need to let go of? Website | https...

Pathfinder Church | September 6, 2020 | Dion Garrett When you’re starting at square one, it can be overwhelming. But that’s mostly because we don’t know what square one actually is. As important as it is to rebuild your finances, career, purpose, or health, none of those things matter nor are they realistically attainable until you first rebuild your relationships. Website | https://pathfinderstl....

Pathfinder Church | August 30, 2020 | Dion Garrett Those who are able to rebound from loss and disruption learn to overcome the thinking that pervades our minds in the aftermath of such losses. Although these mindsets are common, they’re not helpful for our moving on. By reshaping your mindset, you can be assured that you will reemerge, better than ever. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online...

Pathfinder Church | August 23, 2020 | Dion Garrett The soul is designed to finish things and grief is God’s way of processing hard losses. But in a “get over it” culture, this spiritual path, blazed by Jesus himself, often goes untraveled. But you can’t be happy and whole again until you first let your heart be rent for whatever you’ve lost. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | http...

Pathfinder Church | August 16, 2020 | Doug Mauss Every time we work through conflict and arrive at a resolution, that moment can be either a nice, but passing kumbaya or it can be a force for lasting change. You can either wipe your brow with a sigh of relief or you can use the moment to roll up your sleeves and take the final difficult step that can help leave you better than where you started. W...

Pathfinder Church | August 2, 2020 | Doug Mauss In arguing we usually try to find something that will give us the upper hand, advantage, the high ground… but giving up ground may be the better way to come to a true and satisfying resolution. How can that be? is better so that everyone can find equal footing. Only when both parties feel safe can our sparring be productive. Website | https://pathfin...

Pathfinder Church | July 26, 2020 | Dion Garrett Many arguments begin because you and the other person seemingly want different things. But most arguments last because we’ve forgotten what it is we really want, or sometimes why we started fighting in the first place. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Ins...

Pathfinder Church | July 19, 2020 | Dion Garrett We spend time arguing over what we see as facts, but facts seldom cause arguments, our stories do. Until we learn to unravel the stories we tell ourselves about the other and us, we’ll never get out of a cycle of endless conflict. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathf...

Pathfinder Church | July 5, 2020 | Doug Mauss Although “chasing rainbows” has come to signify a fool’s errand, God invites us to take risks! We think we want a life that is stable and consistent, but it’s in risking that we find the best rewards and in moments of limitation that we discover new breakthroughs. Deliberately disrupting the stability of life seems foolish but perhaps it’s the key to t...

Pathfinder Church | August 9, 2020 | Doug Mauss We’ve all heard about the value of empathy but there’s a practical benefit to empathy that rarely gets talked about… it helps you get closer to what YOU want. Far from being manipulative though, tactical empathy helps everyone win. Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathf...

Pathfinder Church | June 28, 2020 | Dion Garrett You can’t avoid the dark places of life. Without clouds and rain, there’s drought (and never the promise of a rainbow in the sky). Growth and blessing happen through the very circumstances we often seek to avoid. So how do we learn to brave the storms when we see them coming? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl....

Pathfinder Church | June 21, 2020 | Dion Garrett Life isn’t good for everyone at every moment, which means that life must be celebrated whenever it’s good for you! But how do you let yourself be joyful when others around you are not? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give Facebook | https://facebook.com/pathfinderstl Instagram |  https://instagram.com/pa...

Pathfinder Church | June 14, 2020 | Doug Mauss Rain is necessary for life. But humans, throughout time, devoted themselves to spending an awful lot of time chasing after the rain instead of seeking the Rainmaker. Could most of our discontentment exist because we confuse the gifts we have with the One who gave them? Website | https://pathfinderstl.org Online Giving | https://pathfinderstl.org/give...