Midweek Moment

You check the time multiple times a day, but do you know what a.m. or p.m stand for? It turns out that these are Latin abbreviations, Ante...

Today’s reading is Mark 13:1-8.  “Everything is going to change and the world as you know it will come to an end.” In essence, this...

Today’s reading from the Gospel of Mark is all about the authority of Jesus. Specifically, the religious elites of the day question...

Today’s reading can feel confusing – especially in today’s cultural context.  Some of us have walked through the pain of...

What we believe about someone is often the most important part of a relationship, shaping our thoughts, speech, and behavior toward that...

Today’s reading is Mark 7:14-23.  The context of today’s reading is firmly rooted in the reading from yesterday from Mark 7:1-13. The...

And a great crowd followed [Jesus] and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who...

My 2-year-old daughter has become very interested in the song, This Little Light of Mine.  She loves to hear it at bedtime and nap time...

A Man with a Withered Hand 3 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2 And they watched Jesus, to...

Today’s reading is Mark 1:16-28. Can I confess that I have always had a slight apprehension about pushes from the pulpit to invite people...

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Psalm 118:1 Psalm 118 is a communal call for the...

The turbulence of this season has resulted in strong feelings coming to the surface for many of us, causing strains in relationships...

This week, I’m reflecting upon the words of the prophet Isaiah which will be read by churches around the world in the coming weeks of...

“VUCA”. It’s a business literature term that describes a situation that is Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. What...

This week, in our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality small groups and in our Sunday service, we talked about what it’s like to feel as...

In Matthew 10:1-4, there’s a seemingly benign list of names of Jesus’ apostles. Included in this list are “Simon the Zealot” and...

“… I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim....

I remember this moment a number of years ago when I was speaking at a conference and my session had gone pretty well. Afterward, a younger...

As a church, we are looking at what it means to have an emotionally healthy spirituality; the type of faith that allows God to have access...

It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who coined the saying, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” The quote...

Let’s be real; the world is a crazy place right now. It almost seems as though whenever you think “there can’t be anything else,”...

Amen.  It probably looks a bit odd to start something with that word. Some of you may have even wondered for a second if that was supposed...

“...but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;     they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not...