Back in the Day: Being Together
Today is World Communion Sunday. It is in part a reminder of the many different cultures and ways of life around the world. Each of those cultures are made up of people who have lives....
Acceptance – No Matter the Difference
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here, right now. –...
Discovering The Power In Your Life
Have you ever got a new pet? And struggled with training it? Joanie and I got our first dog a month or so after we got engaged. He was a beagle mix. We named him...
Let There Be…
Origin stories such as Genesis are some of the most beautiful writing in all of scripture. At the same time poetry and prose. Evoking beautiful images that reach back into a time and place p...
From Captive to Captivating
Procrustes, son of Poseidon from Greek Mythology, was an iron smith and inn keeper. He offered hospitality to strangers passing his place on the road between Athens and Eleusis…for a price. Procrustes had a special bed...
Choose Life
On Thursday at prayer meeting, we had a short and unplanned discussion on biblical inerrancy. In some ways this is a topic that divides the church. That is, you either believe the Bible is inerrant or you...
Can We All Just Get Along?
1 Corinthians 1:10-18 For most of her life 21-year-old Britney felt caught in the middle torn between two men she truly adored: her father and her step-father. Too often she felt like she simply had to...