Harvest labor, Jesus says, is down into the fingernail-dirty corners of the world where the poor live who don’t often make it into our churches. It’s down into the muck of human relationships.

David and Goliath is one of the best stories in the Bible. Spoiler alert! Goliath loses big to the teenager!

Maturing faith appreciates questions.

God intervenes through grace. Our response to grace is thanksgiving. It’s a call and response, a cause and effect.

For Jesus, relieving human suffering was worship! For Jesus, religious and political structures exist to affirm human dignity and deliver mercy.

The church ought to be a freedom-house. The best measure of that isn’t how high the steeple is or how deep the endowment runs, but how many people here are being made free.

What is the church? The answer is right there in the story of Pentecost! God intends for the church- the people and where we gather- to be a Power-House!

Spirituality is a complex of practices and values concerned with the divine urge for our freedom. Spirituality is about being set free.