Nope. Not thinking about the 2000 release of the Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer horror movie of the same title. I’m thinking about a tree. An apple tree. An apple tree that stands in the northeast corner of my yard. An apple tree whose days are numbered. On Saturday night, as I was returning from…
“But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.” –John 1:12 In Sunday’s Bible readings we are reminded that we are claimed and called as children of God. God creates family not because we are God’s blood relatives, but through adoption. In baptism we are…
New Day Sermon Pentecost 17 It’s budget season! We budget all the time, but some things God simply doesn’t want you to budget…
TRADITIONAL SERMON — EASTER 2 Words have power. Even in a world like ours where words are vomited across every single communication platform that exists in far greater volume than ever before. Amazingly, our regular misuse of our words has not diminished their inherent potency. If I say something like “TOM!” … I immediately have…
There’s a set of keys offered to us in today’s gospel text that we (and the disciples) are challenged to find: the key to knowing peace rather than fear, the key to being able to trust another person, and the key to offering forgiveness. Finding the keys to discipleship is a necessary step in our quest to travel down the road.
God is great at teaching through paradoxes, things that at first, seem totally absurd. Jesus does his best to explain how they are true. The contradictory proposition of Ash Wednesday is how ashes not only cleanse, but prepare space to light a new fire.
New Day Sermon pentecost 15 We’re often focused on keeping the toxins out, but what about the toxic stuff from within? What do we do with that toxic stuff?!
