Extreme Changes and Stability

Wow…what a difference a few weeks can make.  Honestly, I never would have thought that, in a few months, we’d be taking the extreme steps that we are taking to combat a worldwide pandemic.  I was in a grocery store the other day and heard a very frightened mom an aisle over living out her fear with her 4-5-year-old. Read More …

Are all gods created equal?

  by, Jim Campbell I saw a new TV series promo the other day for a show called “American Gods”.  The name was interesting, so I thought I’d check it out. The overall premise was that the “old gods” (Norse, Greek, etc…) were losing influence and were in danger of being reduced to nothing by the “new gods” (named Technology, Media, etc…).  The series is about the power struggle of those gods and the drama that Read More …

An odd choice

by, Jim is the Campus / Pastor and Primary Communicator at Bay West Church Palm Bay Fl How do you prepare for a hard day or season?  I usually try to make sure I’m eating healthy, getting plenty of rest, and clearing out my schedule.  Many of us do similar types of things to prepare ourselves. With my wife in the runoff for School Board in District 5, hard season has taken on a whole new meaning. Read More …

Hating on couscous

by, Jim Campbell, Pastor Bay West Church of Palm Bay Florida I’m not what you consider a foodie…at all.  I’m from the Southern United States, where it’s usually meat and potatoes and fresh vegetables.  I like my steaks well done, my hamburgers big and nothing really fancy.  For most of my life, I hated on things like couscous, which, according to Wikipedia, is a “a North African Berber dish of small steamed balls of semolina”…see? Read More …