The E-pistle

Dear Members and Friends of First Church, Greetings to you from Bonita Springs—where we, like you, are dealing with what [...]

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your [...]

In each Epistle, this column features a single question to which our pastors are asked to reply. It is usually [...]

HOLISTIC FAITH: Faith & Mind What is the mind? For many, the mind is that ineffable part of us that [...]

August Memory Verse Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one [...]

Many ministries of First Church have been established to focus on aspects of congregational care and God’s healing of mind, [...]

Dr. Al Barrow and Pastor June Barrow established Together Living with Cancer (TLC) in late 2018 as a program of [...]

HOLISTIC FAITH: Faith & Body For years during my annual physical, my doctor would comment, “You should lose five to [...]

September Memory Verse But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with [...]

Gray Matter by Dr. David Levy is a multi-faceted book. Two days after I was asked to do this review, [...]

Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson, 2017) It is no surprise that [...]

What does it mean to be healthy? If we asked the members of First Church, responses would vary greatly but [...]

HOLISTIC FAITH: Faith & Soul It has been said that when our lives are in balance, we evenly divide our [...]

“One of the most important developments in contemporary Christian missiology is the recovery of a theology of mission in the [...]

First Church is a church on a holistic mission. The Bible says, “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify [...]