Forbidden By The Holy Spirit
May 26, 2025
There’s a lot happening in the morning’s scripture reading, which is a bit of a mishmash of a scripture reading. So let me give you some context for it. The Book of Acts was written as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke, by the same author (Luke) and was written for, was addressed and […]
Read MoreHow To Keep Safe From Loveless Religion
May 19, 2025
One of the things people turn to religion for is a sense of grounding. There is more than simply comfort in the familiarity of hymns you know by heart and prayers you could say in your sleep. There is more than simply comfort in entrusting yourself to rituals which are sturdy enough to hold you, […]
Read MoreRemembrance and Resurrection
May 12, 2025
As tradition has it, Easter is not a Sunday, but a season. The trumpet fanfare and festive lilies and pews full of squirming children in floral dresses and little seersucker suits make for a big day, but this is only the beginning. For the next seven Sundays – almost two months of them, most of […]
Read MoreLiving With a Slow and Steady Conversion
May 5, 2025
There are some traditions which take the experience that Saul had on the road to Damascus – which take his sudden, dramatic, life-changing conversion – there are some traditions which take the experience that Saul had on the road to Damascus as the yardstick against which the sincerity or the depth of every Christian’s faith […]
Read MoreConfirmation Sunday
April 29, 2025
On Sunday, April 28, 2025, we joyfully welcomed a special group of individuals into full membership of our church family—our confirmands. Confirmation is not just a ceremony. It is a milestone that marks the growth of personal faith and the decision to walk intentionally in the path of Jesus. A key part of the Confirmation […]
Read MoreHow to Live as a Person of Hope
April 21, 2025
Easter Sunday is about hope, about the hope we have that there is world beyond this world, a world we are not born into, but die into: a world where all those who have lived in this world live on, a world where all those who have loved in this world love on, a world […]
Read MoreLiving With A Sense Of Radical Openness To Good Surprises
April 14, 2025
You think you know what you’re in for. You think you know exactly how it’s all going to go. You’ve been to one Palm Sunday worship service, you’ve been to ‘em all. You know? The opening hymn will be “All Glory, Laud, and Honor.” The choir will process in singing it, with kids leading the […]
Read MoreWhen Nothing Else Matters
April 7, 2025
We don’t do it the way the Apostle Paul did it. Brag, that is. Like: I don’t think anyone who has been circumcised would ever see this as something to be especially proud of. No recruiter would ever reach out to you because they heard you’d been and were impressed. But in the world of […]
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