sermons preached (mostly) weekly, seeking God and trying to ask good questions
Sure, we'll all keep messing it up and forgetting it, and God will love us anyway. Continue reading →
nowing that our salvation does not depend upon the answers. Continue reading →
God is born in love, not in a palace, but in a hay trough. God is born, not into safety and power, but almost immediately into running for his life. Continue reading →
God is born in love, not in a palace, but in a hay trough. God is born, not into safety and power, but almost immediately into running for his life. Continue reading →
This night was not guaranteed to happen. God CHOSE to be born into the world. God chooses it everyday. Continue reading →
This night was not guaranteed to happen. God CHOSE to be born into the world. God chooses it everyday. Continue reading →
For some reason, we assume that judgement means condemnation. Instead, God's apocalypse brings forgiveness and new life. Continue reading →
For some reason, we assume that judgement means condemnation. Instead, God's apocalypse brings forgiveness and new life. Continue reading →
A service for those who struggle with the "Holiday Season." Whether you are in grief and loss or find yourself overwhelmed with the demands of the season, listen for comfort and hope. Continue reading →
A service for those who struggle with the "Holiday Season." Whether you are in grief and loss or find yourself overwhelmed with the demands of the season, listen for comfort and hope. Continue reading →
I wonder if we can believe that the gospel is OUR story too. Continue reading →
I wonder if we can believe that the gospel is OUR story too. Continue reading →
Jesus is so sure that there is enough, that he has done enough to bring new life, that he's sitting down, propping up his feet. Continue reading →
Jesus is so sure that there is enough, that he has done enough to bring new life, that he's sitting down, propping up his feet. Continue reading →
All Saints is not an easy day. It is never easy to hold our thanksgiving alongside our loss. Continue reading →
Giving our whole lives to Jesus might just take our whole lives long. Continue reading →
Giving our whole lives to Jesus might just take our whole lives long. Continue reading →
The questions we ask as children do not go away; they linger in our hearts. Continue reading →
The questions we ask as children do not go away; they linger in our hearts. Continue reading →
After a small, family burial service due to COVID restrictions, we were finally able to hold a memorial service for our friend and sister Glenda Bryant on October 2, 2021.
After a small, family burial service due to COVID restrictions, we were finally able to hold a memorial service for our friend and sister Glenda Bryant on October 2, 2021.
What do you wish you had the answer to? What burns within you, what question, what curiosity, what wondering? Continue reading →
What do you wish you had the answer to? What burns within you, what question, what curiosity, what wondering? Continue reading →
Who will be given the honor to act in Jesus' name? Jesus says "anyone at all, and the humbler the better." Continue reading →
...that's the Gospel. Not shame, but love. Not endlessly failing God, but being welcomed, for all eternity. Continue reading →
Salvation, if it means anything, and if it comes at the moment of our deepest despair, is nothing less than a new creation. Continue reading →
Inside your pocket is access to all the grief and hurt and pain of the world. it's all too much. What is our response? Continue reading →
Forgiveness returns us to Jesus. Continue reading →
Even if God grants us all the wisdom of Solomon, we won't be able to get it all done, but we might, just might, be able to tell what needs doing. Continue reading →
A sermon about an ordinary person and extraordinary grace. Continue reading →
God chooses complicated people. God chooses all of us. Continue reading →
You belong to the Living God. You can't preach a small gospel when you belong to the one whom even the wind and the sea obey. Continue reading →
God chooses me. God chooses you. God chooses grace, every single time. Continue reading →
Evenings this time of year are full of grace and mercy. I imagine Eden being something like that. Continue reading →
It is a long green season to come. Easter is nearly a year away; 209 shopping days until Christmas. Let's don't wait that long. Let's start looking for Jesus, right now. Continue reading →
God is love, but we sure do make it complicated sometimes. Continue reading →
God saves. How do we respond to that salvation. Continue reading →
Easter is not a return to normal. Easter is not a return to anything. Easter is all of our death, redeemed. Continue reading →
From Hosannas to Crucify!, and every moment in between. In all of our whiplash and rushing around trying to save ourselves, God is working out our redemption. Continue reading →
God does not forsake his people. Continue reading →
What if God sees us, just the way we are and loves us still? Continue reading →
If only we can be just foolish enough to believe that God is redeeming everything. Continue reading →
What matters; the only thing that matters, is not how faithful we are, but how faithful God is. And God is always faithful.
We sin; God forgives. We sin more; God forgives more. As much as any of us sin, God forgives, continually. Click here to see the Great Litany
I am inviting you to trust that God is with us as we leave behind the mountaintop that God remains with us, works alongside us, as we walk the valley floor.
Sometimes you have to know the ending to make sense of the beginning of the story.
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