The Sense of a Sign

June 16, 2024
I suppose there are those here who know of Marfa—so chic—but if you kept on driving along Highway 90, and driving and driving, like you really had to get to…

Rite of Passage?

June 9, 2024
Jesus is mean.  We don’t like mean Jesus.  Mean Jesus is too much for us.  Can you imagine Jesus insulting someone or treating anyone like a second-class person?  You don’t…
If Jesus is always teaching, he is also preparing his followers.  He has something he’s asking them to do, wants them to be doing.  In much of the first part…

The Unwanted Gift

April 28, 2024
Scottish pastor and biblical scholar of the previous century W. Graham Scroggie points here to one of the key, constant questions about Jesus: from where is he getting this authority? …

So Inconvenient

April 21, 2024
Now, everyone was always eager for Jesus to do some miraculous sign, some awesome work.  They weren’t looking for parlor tricks.  People around them were sick, crippled, blind, deaf, hard-hearted…

Salvation from Self

April 14, 2024
When we go through our elder nomination process for session each autumn, we pray that the Spirit would guide us to those he wants.  This should in no way be…
The most inconvenient part of our faith isn’t having to gather here on Sundays or listen to me preach, tedious though that can be.  The most inconvenient part of our…

Rest in Christ

March 10, 2024
The Sabbath was God’s gift, God’s blessing for His people.  The one thing you do not do, then, is fail to honor and respect the gift.  That would dishonor the…
When I began attending church twenty-two years ago, I’m not sure I knew what I was expecting.  I just had this inner sense—whispering, nudging—that God wanted me to go to…

Doors Not Walls

February 18, 2024
No one gets to Jesus in just the same way.  Am I going to tell Jesus, “Lord, that’s not how I’d do it”?  If people bring someone to Jesus in…