12/5/21 – Looking the part

December 5, 2021

This is the first Sunday of Advent, our season of waiting, and our season of expectation, as we prepare our hearts again for Christmas, and for the celebration of the…

When, Jesus?

November 14, 2021
If you’re anything like me, you spend way too much of your time and your emotional energy worrying about the bad things you just know are on the horizon.  …

Giving all we have

November 7, 2021
This Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day, and we’ll have an opportunity to remember the saints in our lives who have gone on to glory during the past year.  …

Listen up, people!

October 31, 2021
Today’s scripture is one of the most significant moments in the ministry of Jesus. A Pharisee comes to him and asks him this question: Rabbi, what is the most important,…

Can’t stop what’s coming

October 24, 2021
Gandhi is famously said to have said, “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” And this is unfortunately all too…
I was listening to a theology podcast the other day. The show was hosted by an Episcopal theologian, and her guests on the show were a Presbyterian pastor and a…

Give it up!

October 10, 2021
We work hard for what we have. Something drives us. Something pushes us forward. It’s not the same thing for each one of us, but there is something for each…

Context is everything

October 3, 2021
Imagine this: you’re out, pretty much minding your own business, when you see someone slam violently into someone another man, knocking him to the ground, and falling on top of…