Dumbfounded: God did what? …for who?
I am dumbfounded. And it’s because of my kids. You know how kids…especially siblings…play together, right? Sometimes they play like they really love one another. And sometimes they play like they hate each other. Most...
A Sheepish Relationship
We have several unique pieces of art in the sanctuary at Hood Memorial Christian Church. And today, on Good Shepherd Sunday, I want to point out to you the Good Shepherd window. Many sermons and...
Joined at the Vine – The Practice of Connecting to the Source of Life
Sometimes at the most tragic moments of life, we need something fun, something funny, something entertaining to pull us back from the dead and dying into the life we are living. So, I have figure...
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...
Because – Context Matters
Read along with me from Matthew 25:1-13 – the Parable of the 10 Bridesmaids. I’ve never been a big fan of this story. But we all need to pay attention to stories that trouble us....
Can’t Never Could
Invitation – A Prodigal’s Party
Freeway is here! But before we dive in, if we are going to set of on a journey to freedom, let’s first consider the very idea of freedom. What is it? Here’s a few quotes...
Enough
Ever thought much about what it means to have enough…? There are things that make us busy, pull us down, frustrate or annoy us because we’ve just had enough of them… Work – job, yard...
Water Walking
For the past several weeks we have come across stories that have had a different meaning than we may have thought they had. There’s the story of Jacob which is more about a family’s struggle...
Casting Cares
A few Sundays ago, I spoke about how the church’s overemphasis on belief has watered down Christianity into something more about our heads than our way of life. Just to remind you, I gave you...