We made it through Superbowl Sunday and we are headed into Lent. Today, I am to bridgethe gap between the two. As we prepare for Ash Wednesday and our “spiritual springcleaning” during Lent, we read some of the most intense scripture in the bible, setting a highbar to aim for as we work on our…
Our first reading from Isaiah speaks of the great promise of salvation. “The people who walkedin darkness have seen a great light. You have brought them abundant joy, and greatrejoicing.” We are living the great promise of God’s light and joy in our lives. As we start anew year, we look for new ways to…
Happy New Year!! This week we celebrated the completion of our journey around a star, a heavenly body essential to our life on earth. That star is the sun, and it provides us with everything: oxygen, food, light and it holds our planet on course by its gravitational pull. Today, we focus on another important…
“Advent” is a term that comes from the preparation for a homecoming. A king sends his armyout to fight the enemy and several years later they return victorious! In the advent the cityprepares a celebration, to honor those who fought, and secured their protection. During the Advent Season, we prepare to welcome Christ into our…
This weekend, we celebrate three holidays, each with its own way of seeing beyond the horizon of this life. Let’s explore the history and meaning of Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day and how they help us navigate the reality of our mortality. Halloween is the oldest of these holidays and takes us…
God gives us two lives, one physical and one spiritual. As humans we are wired for the physical life. Things that keep us alive are automatic. Forexample, our hearts beat, and our lungs breathe without thought. We are well equipped tosatisfy our hunger by growing, hunting, or searching for food. When we are threatened, wehave…
As Christians, we have a divine calling, and God gives us a life on earth to understand it andrespond to it in faith. Today we journey with the converted Jews in the book of Hebrews asthey are coached on how to respond to this calling. Then we will consider the words of Jesusas he calls…
God wants to get PERSONAL with us. Today’s scripture gives us several stories where Godengages with Abraham, Martha, and Mary in much the same way he desires to journey witheach of us. Let’s explore THESE interactions and a story about a deacon’s journey into ministryand ask ourselves, how is God actively engaging each of US…
Happy Pentecost Sunday! A day when we remember how the early Christians were gathered in one place, as we are today, and experienced the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Let’s take a deep dive into the waters of the Holy Spirit and discover where it fits into our spiritual journey. This is a quote…
When one of our kids struggled a little in elementary school, she told us she did better when she was assigned as seat in the front of the class. It turns out, she needed glasses, but she didn’t know that other kids saw the world more clearly than her. When she got her first pair,…