TIRED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2025
I don’t think I’m alone in being tired of the state of the world. What will address the warfare, violence, hatred, and just general meanness of this world? In a world where power, winning, material s…
THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK: SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
Being a disciple of Jesus is more than being a member of a church. There are costs to placing Jesus at the center of life to the exclusion of other things. Being a disciple leaves marks, and it begin…
TABLES ARE NEVER NEUTRAL: AUG. 31, 2025
A grandfather's coffee cup, a splash of milk, and a kitchen table full of chaos. Sometimes the most profound truths about God's kingdom hide in the most ordinary moments. If you've ever felt like you…
SABBATH CELEBRATION: AUG 24, 2025
Keeping the sabbath is often seen as an obligation. In this age, a time-worn, quaint vestige of a more religious culture. For Jesus, sabbath is not an obligation. It is a celebration of the freedom w…
FIRE: AUG. 17, 2025
When Jesus announces that he has come to bring fire upon the earth and division to families it is a little off-putting, don’t you think? Is he announcing punishment or is there a message of grace and…
THE HOLY THIEF: AUG. 10, 2025
What if Jesus isn’t guarding the locks but breaking them open—freeing us from the prisons we didn’t even know we were defending?
Genesis 15:1-6 | Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 | Luke 12:32-40
WHAT HOLDS YOU? AUGUST 3, 2025
We build, we store, we cling. But beneath all that effort—what’s actually holding you?
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 | Colossians 3:1-11 | Luke 12:13-21
TEACH US TO PRAY: JULY 27, 2025
When Jesus’ disciples ask him to teach them to pray, he gives them the Lord’s Prayer (or Our Father). He then instructs them with parables that assure them of God’s attention and desire to give us wh…
THE SACRED RHYTHM: JULY 20, 2025
When "crazy busy" becomes your default answer to "How are you?", maybe it's time to learn a different way to breathe. What if the story of two sisters arguing is about more than just dinner prep—and …
THIS JOURNEY: JULY 13, 2025
What if eternal life doesn’t begin at the destination, but in the ditch? What if the most important part of the journey isn’t where you're going—but what interrupts you along the way?
Deuteronomy 30:…
PLENTIFUL HARVEST. FEW WORKERS. JULY 6, 2025
Jesus sends 72 (or 70) workers out to proclaim the peace of the reign of God and its imminent approach. The number is a symbol – Genesis says that there are 72 (or 70) nations in the world. Jesus is …
BURN IT: JUNE 29, 2025
What if the only way forward... was to set fire to everything holding you back?
1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 | Galatians 5:1, 13-25 | Luke 9:51-62
I SEE YOU! JUNE 22, 2025
We humans are good at applying labels to each other. Short, fat, black, white, loser, winner… We drop bombs on “enemies,” we feed (or chastise) the “hungry. We apply a label and we think we know a pe…
UNBEARABLE: JUNE 15, 2025
Jesus once said, “You cannot bear it now.” We usually think of the unbearable as pain—and rightly so. But what if the unbearable isn’t only sorrow? What if it’s also joy too overwhelming to carry, lo…
THE SPIRIT IS NO GHOST: JUNE 8, 2025
Pentecost is a festival that celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit. For years, English-speaking Christians referred to the third person of the Trinity as “The Holy Ghost” (some still do). This alway…
CALLED BOTH WAYS: JUNE 1, 2025
We live in the tension between ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ and ‘Come and see’ - crying out for Christ’s return while extending Christ’s invitation to a thirsty world. The church is called to be both bride cal…
LYDIA’S LEGACY: MAY 25, 2025
Scripture does not tell us much about Lydia, but we have enough to know that she begins the story as one who is always the outsider. A woman in a man’s world, a person of wealth and means, an immigra…
NO MORE TEARS: MAY 18, 2025
The Book of Revelation reveals the gift of a New Jerusalem as a symbol of the fulfillment of God’s reign of peace, justice, and love. In that gentle reign there will be no more tears. That is good ne…
DEFIANT DOXOLOGY: MAY 11, 2025
They stood in silence and whispered a risk: “Jesus is Lord.” Not a slogan. Not a ritual. A choice that could cost everything. What kind of faith dares to speak when power says to stay quiet? This wee…
ON THE WRONG ROAD: MAY 4, 2025
Ever been on the wrong road, headed the wrong way? Worse yet, even been on the on the wrong road and not know it? Peter and Paul are on the wrong road in the scriptures for this day. No map, GPS, or …