by Matthew Dyer | Jun 30, 2022 | Lead Pastor's Blog
This Sunday we begin our God in The Movies series, where we’ll hear from various people in our community as they share about their own journey of struggle, pain, joy and hope in real life… And real life is rarely easy! These have been harrowing times. Sometimes...
by Matthew Dyer | Feb 13, 2019 | Lead Pastor's Blog
I love birds, and always have. As a child, they caught my attention out in the countryside, and I would watch them intently through the window while I was munching down my breakfast before school. Slowly I started to notice their distinctions and began to identify...
by Matthew Dyer | Jan 18, 2019 | Lead Pastor's Blog
On Monday, we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Few people in recent history have challenged such painful and seemingly intractable injustice and captured the imagination of a whole culture with a dream of an alternative future. In the face of...
by Matthew Dyer | Jan 11, 2019 | Lead Pastor's Blog
I’ll be honest: I do not like Mr. Trump. I don’t like his policies. I can’t stand the boasting, the belittling, the bullying, and the addiction to ratings. I’m appalled by the rhetoric that sounds (to me) racist, sexist and chauvinistic. It’s outrageous how this kind...
by Cedar Ridge Community Church | Feb 22, 2017 | Lead Pastor's Blog
The current political climate has led to fear, vitriol and contention. For some it feels like the world has been turned upside down with conflict and opposing viewpoints, while for others it feels like the world has always been this way and we are all just waking up...