When the old answers stop working
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Waterville Community Church doesn't fit the usual competing boxes:
Conservative or liberal.
Fundamentalist or progressive.
Stuck in tradition or chasing every trend.
Faith, for us, is not a battle to win. It’s a way of life.
One that is based on belief and grounded in real experience.
Our experience is Jesus.
Our belief is that God is better than we often think.
Our way of life is love.
What you will find here is a group of people who are Learning Love from a God we believe IS love.
Come learn with us.
Conservative or liberal.
Fundamentalist or progressive.
Stuck in tradition or chasing every trend.
Faith, for us, is not a battle to win. It’s a way of life.
One that is based on belief and grounded in real experience.
Our experience is Jesus.
Our belief is that God is better than we often think.
Our way of life is love.
What you will find here is a group of people who are Learning Love from a God we believe IS love.
Come learn with us.
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Conform Part 4 (9/13/2026)
Sep 13, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
Conform Part 3 (9/6/2026)
Sep 6, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
Conform Part 2 (8/30/2026)
Aug 30, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
Conform Part 1 (8/23/2026)
Aug 23, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
Open Mic - Dustin Schmidt (8/16/2026)
Aug 16, 2026 • Dustin Schmidt
gods Of This Age Part 5 (8/9/2026)
Aug 9, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
gods Of This Age Part 4 (8/2/2026)
Aug 2, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
gods Of This Age Part 3 (7/26/2026)
Jul 26, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
gods Of This Age Part 2 (7/19/2026)
Jul 19, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
gods Of This Age Part 1 (7/12/2026)
Jul 12, 2026 • Mike O'Shea
Open Mic - Tyler Dunlap (7/5/2026)
Jul 5, 2026 • Tyler Dunlap
Open Mic - Amy Price (6/28/2026)
Jun 28, 2026 • Amy Price
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Pastor's Blog
"The Bible says.." "Yeah, but the Bible also says..."
September 15th, 2026
While reading in the book of Exodus the other day I was struck by this particular law:
10 “If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not
neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy. 11 If he fails in
any of these three obligations, she may leave as a free woman without making any
payment (Exodus 21:10-11 NLT).
I’m guessing you’v...
Subsplash and church leadership
September 8th, 2026
Sunday I preached a sermon on the dangers of productivity while also rolling out a new church management platform that will likely make us more…productive.
And while increased productivity was not the purpose for the new platform, the irony was not lost on me.
Nor was the fact that this was Labor Day weekend, a holiday typically devoted to resting from labor and productivity....
Getting People Wrong
September 1st, 2026
Back in 2022 I wrote a post reflecting on Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know Abou the People We Don’t Know. You can read that post here.
Gladwell’s basic point is that we’re bad at talking to strangers. That is, encounters with people we don’t know have a tendency to go very badly. According to Gladwell’s analysis, that is because; 1) we default to truth, that is we...
