Faith that Invalidates the Impossible and the Absurd
Luke 17:1-10 Jeremiah warned of thing to come. When the trouble came, he lamented. How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow...
Real (Estate) Hope
Pastoral Prayer: Holy One, we gather this morning aware of hopelessness around us. Powers collude to threaten our future. Sometimes we conspire with these enemies unaware. The threat is...
Trolling Christian Twitter for Nuggets of Gold
I am more near retirement than Scott. I have grandchildren older than his newborn. He has more hair. And, fortunately for me, he did not turn the old guy...
An Inverted Yield Curve, or Is There No Balm in Gilead?
Pastoral Prayer: Lord God, we show up and follow our liturgy, our order of service. We expect that you will show up on time and here in our place....
Vincent van Gogh’s Rembrandt, Nouwen’s van Gogh and Carol Berry’s Gift
Twenty or so years ago I read Leonard Sweet’s soulTsunami. Tucked away in that long description of the to-come for the church and religious life was a reference to...
Who Does That?!
Often I take a manuscript into the pulpit. The preached sermon will vary. Below the post will be a link to the preached sermon. Text: Jeremiah 18:1-18 Pastoral Prayer:...
The Bookkeepers Will Always Be With You . . . But They Don’t Have to Be
Often I take a manuscript into the pulpit. The preached sermon will vary. Below the post will be a link to the preached sermon. Luke 15:1-3, 25-30 Pastoral Prayer:...
Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Church of Us vs. Them: A Conversation with David Fitch
How many times have you read a Facebook/Blog post that insists, “If your pastor didn’t say anything about [most recent social injustice], you need to find a new church?”...
Living in Sin: A Conversation with Jason Micheli
“I forgive you.” We generally think those words follow, “I’m sorry.” The Good News of the Gospel is that God’s, “I forgive you,” comes first. That is how Jason...
Plundering Egypt: A Conversation on the Passing of Rachel Held Evans
Just two days after Stan Grenz died, David Dockery began his concluding paragraph warning Baptists, specifically Southern Baptists, that Grenz might lead his readers into orthodox inconsistency. Unfortunately, his...
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