School administrators were caught off guard when Bryce Dershem, valedictorian of the Eastern Regional High School class of 2021, stepped up to the podium and began delivering a very different speech than the speech that had already been approved. The new speech, which was clearly memorized, focused on his experience as a self-identified queer student[…]
Discipleship
I preached this message on Sunday morning, March 15, 2020. Later that day, Governor Mike DeWine closed restaurants, bars, barber shops, salons, gyms, and essentially every other business in Ohio. Later that week he issued an order forbidding assemblies of more than 10 people. As a result, CrossPointe closed for eight weeks. However, during the[…]