16 Jun, 2025
Ordinary Time (the church season between Pentecost and Advent)… is just so… ordinary. Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost are filled with purpose and exciting stories. People especially flock to church at Christmas and Easter because they...
09 Jun, 2025
We’ve come through a long journey with the disciples from the death of Jesus to today, the day they were deemed “ready” to receive the Spirit. The day the wind blew and fire appeared and language barriers were broken. The day divine power swept...
02 Jun, 2025
So where do we go next as we follow the disciples in their path of spiritual transformation? After the death of Jesus, he tells the disciples to wait until they are ready to receive the power of the holy spirit before they go forth to witness...
27 May, 2025
In our Easter Passages series we’re companioning the disciples through the time between the death of Jesus and Pentecost where they will receive the power of the Holy Spirit and move forward again as the new leaders of the Jesus movement. What...
19 May, 2025
We began a series on Easter Passages to try to discover the spiritual path the disciples took from “Easter” to Pentecost when they were finally ready to receive the power of the Holy Spirit and become his witnesses. Two weeks ago we talked...
12 May, 2025
“Where were you when I created the earth?... Who held back the sea behind partitions when it burst forth from my womb, when I created clouds as the earth’s raiment and thick darkness as its swaddling clothes… Whose womb gives life to ice or...
05 May, 2025
Well, I hit my after-Easter-let-down this week. I got carried a week longer by the Music Service and our speakers last week, then I hit the proverbial wall. Many pastors I’ve known (and myself many years) take the Sunday after Easter off...
21 Apr, 2025
We’ve been talking about resistance for the last five weeks. A spiritual and social resistance led by Jesus to try and create a better world. And what did he get for it? Crucifixion. That may be the one verifiable, undeniable historical fact...
14 Apr, 2025
Award winning author, Evette Dionne, said, “Joy is a revolutionary force. We need it as much as we need anger because it is joy that will help keep us in these bodies long enough to enact justice.” Why? Because it unifies, lifts spirits,...
07 Apr, 2025
G.K. Chesterton once said, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried.” Why is it difficult? Because the foundation of Christianity is supposed to be love . People found this too difficult, and...