Peter isn’t happy about what’s going to happen to Jesus. Neither are we. Suffer? Killed? Terrible! Let’s be followers without the suffering. In seminary, no one quite knew what…
Jesus emerges. He emerges from the bright, cool waters of the Jordan; he emerges from the hard, dark tomb. He reaches through the twilight of our confusion, our sorrow,…
The power of darkness is fear. There is fear in the darkness, fear of the dark. Children want the nightlight. I’m liking the flashlight on my cell phone. There…
Lord-willing, we have Jesus in our church. I think we do. My aim, my desire, is that we are always putting Jesus Christ front and center in this church:…
Paul wants us to live with concern for the discipleship of others. This is part of a larger discussion of the uses and abuses of freedom. We have been…
It’s been two thousand years; the time is always short. Our time is short. We have less than we had; we don’t get more. Instead of that being a…
About all I remember of high school health class was sex education, trying to remember and write down what I ate in a week, and a film about a…
God created. There is so much wonder and joy, power and glory in those two words. I have no way to unpack that here, today, in this hour, but…
Who will receive him? Who will welcome him in? Go from our worship gathering today with the expectation of this question on your lips and in your heart. We…
Simeon and Anna are the closest thing Jesus has to grandparents, and what grandparents! Both are at the Temple. Though it was my parents who first took me to…