My name is Tom Quaid and I am one of the Pastors at Vineyard Church of North Phoenix. Like all of you I am constantly processing the world around me, my life experiences and what God is telling me through His Word. I want to use this space to share some of those thoughts, hopefully they'll be interesting to you (if not I think they'll still have value...it is cheaper than me paying for therapy!)…
Recently I celebrated my 50th birthday (if you can celebrate such an event). A friend of mine gave me a small recorder to record thoughts, grocery lists, etc. He suggested I put things on there like “My name is Tom Quaid” or “I live at…”, you get the idea…ha ha, very funny. I took it out of its package but didn’t do anything with it. Unbeknownst to me my daughter Mollie took it and recorded a…
October 31st, 2006
I know a blog is supposed to be my own thoughts, but Rich Nathan the Pastor of Vineyard Church of Columbus beat me to my own thoughts. I have been thinking a lot lately about how we as the church need to be breaking down the walls that Satan has built and when I read this article I thought it said exactly what I would have said...if I was as eloquent as Rich Nathan. Here is…
October 17th, 2006
Can a decal create community? That is the question I asked myself when we were deciding whether to go ahead with giving out decals for everybody's car. Two years ago I would have said no. I would have said that a decal on a car can’t create a sense of belonging or community. Then my son joined the United States Marine Corp. Before going over to see his graduation from boot…
October 14th, 2006
Recently I've been thinking about how we as Christians have burned many of the bridges to the society that we live in. We are called to be Holy, which means to be set apart for God, but does that mean we have nothing in common with the people around us?
For purposes of illustration I want to focus on one example of this. In the minds of many people in America, Christians and…