Jul 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
God is not a manicured English garden. God is a yellow defiant dandelion in a green lawn. God, “is a weed climbing a wall over a well.” Prune if you will, but it just won’t die. God’s ways and love are messy. When we were given away at our baptism, and when we give...
Jul 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
While the ark is evidence of Noah’s faith, it is the arc of Noah’s faith that inspires me. How does faith that is small and struggles to make room to listen for God, become faith that creates big things to the glory of God? Answer: One step at a time! How did Job, the...
Jul 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
We care about heart trouble. Not just the trouble that affects the four-valved muscle in our chests. But, the trouble that causes people to lose faith and give into the world’s woes and ways. When we gather we say “Lift up your heart.” We do this because Jesus is...
Jul 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
There is a time for everything, the Bible tells us. Except, there is no time for fear! Fear lowers the ceiling of possibility, shrinks our hearts and awakens our inner tyrants. Fear pits us against neighbors and decreases our dependence on God. Yet, people are...
Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Faith is keeping your head up even when you’re standing in a valley. Faith is looking beyond the hills that try to intimidate you. Faith is the lens we look through to understand God’s text messages to us. Faith is knowing God is real, able, good and generous. Faith...
Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Jeremiah complains to God. He thought being a God person wouldn’t be so hard. Now he knows. To love God is to have your image of God surpassed. Obliterated. Tranquility is not as high up on God’s list as it is on ours. God’s mission for Jeremiah is to afflict...
Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are God’s harvest made for God’s harvest. God’s people with a heart for God’s people everywhere. The Church was breathed into existence to increase God’s harvest. But, “…laborers are few.” Scarce laborers have caused a backlog of abundance in the world....
Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Following Jesus is to “Go.” We “Go” with Jesus not as naive do good-ers or bleeding hearts. We “Go” because of God’s power revealed to us in Jesus. We “Go therefore.” Because we have seen and tasted, we worship. Having worshipped, we “Go” into the world with an odd,...
Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Real spirituality is being a real human being. Jesus taught open-arms living not spiritual contortions. Jesus and Spirit guide us to true volition–an invitation to choose God. Really. The positive consequence of choosing God is fear gets overcome with trust, and...
May 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Ah… the moon belongs to everyone, the best things in life they’re free. Stars belong to everyone, they gleam there for you and for me. The flowers in Spring the robins that sing…the sunbeams that shine, they’re yours and they’re mine. Love can come to...
