Midweek Minute in Mark: Mar 31 Sometimes I wonder if we too easily forget the incredible price that Jesus paid on the cross for our sins. On typical Easter...
Midweek Minute in Mark: Mar 24 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark: Mar 17 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark: Mar 10 Today’s reading from the Gospel of Mark is all about the authority of Jesus. Specifically, the religious elites of the day question...
Midweek Minute in March: Mar 3 Today’s reading can feel confusing – especially in today’s cultural context. Some of us have walked through the pain of...
Midweek Minute in Mark Feb 24 What we believe about someone is often the most important part of a relationship, shaping our thoughts, speech, and behavior toward that...
Ash Wednesday: Midweek Minute in Mark Feb 17 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark Feb 10 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark Feb 3 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark Jan 27 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...
Midweek Minute in Mark 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...
Midweek Moment: November 26 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...
Midweek Moment: November 18, 2020 The turbulence of this season has resulted in strong feelings coming to the surface for many of us, causing strains in relationships...
Midweek Moment: November 11, 2020 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...
Midweek Moment: November 4, 2020 “VUCA”. It’s a business literature term that describes a situation that is Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. What...
Midweek Moment: October 28, 2020 This week, in our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality small groups and in our Sunday service, we talked about what it’s like to feel as...
Midweek Moment: October 21, 2020 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...
Midweek Moment: October 14, 2020 “… 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....
Midweek Moment: October 7, 2020 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...
Midweek Moment: September 29, 2020 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...
Midweek Moment: September 23, 2020 It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who coined the saying, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” The quote...
Midweek Moment: September 16, 2020 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,”...
Midweek Moment: September 9, 2020 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...
Midweek Moment: September 2, 2020 “...but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not...