Mario Villella

February 19, 2020
by Mario Villella

Many pastors take time to write out and teach on the values of their church in order to guide decision making. However, I think that there are many leaders out there who mostly only focus on their top-tier values (like in our case it would be: “Love God, love each other, and love people who don’t know God yet”) but they don’t take time to write out their medium-level values.

Are We Still Having Church?

March 18, 2020
by Mario Villella

What a difficult week this has been. I’m sure there are many of you who are discouraged as you are seeing the reactions to Covid-19. I’m sure there are people with weak immune systems who are probably fearing for their life, while others are concerned that their grandparents aren’t social distancing enough. I’m sure there are people trying to figure out what to do with their children for the upcoming weeks while they work, while others are sad that they won’t be able to perform in their upcoming concert or play.

Announcing “Almost Back to Normal Sunday” (June 7) and hopefully “Back to Normal Sunday” (July 5)

June 2, 2020
by Mario Villella

As many of you know, we’ve begun meeting again for “in-person church services” for a month now. And by “in-person church services” I simply mean what everyone meant when they said the words, “church services,” three months ago. We’ve been moving back to normal, with more people coming back to church as the month of May went on. We’ve restarted KidZone for our youngest age groups (pre-Kindergarten) and plan on adding more age-groups this week.

The First To State His Case Seems Right

August 20, 2020
by Mario Villella

I was recently reminded of this Bible verse: "The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him." ~ Proverbs 18:17. What an important principle to remember. The less bible-y way to say this would be the phrase: “There are two sides to every story.”

To Mask or Not To Mask?

September 6, 2020
by Mario Villella

No doubt you’ve noticed there’s been quite an uproar in our country about masks over the last three months. Some people have recently wondered why I’ve been “silent” about this issue.

The Release of My Second Book

September 29, 2020
by Mario Villella

Last year around this time, I was able to make available to you a short book on the topic of work that I had written earlier that year. This year, I have the privilege of doing that again. Written back before COVID, but freshly printed this month, It Takes Two to Tangle is another 20-day devotional that gives us a survey of multiple Bible passages on an important topic: how to handle conflict.

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