Our congregation has been wrestling with the concept of missionality — that we, as the church, engage with God in God’s mission to..
Would you continue to go to a gym where many of the personal trainers seemed out of shape? What if those trainers..
Take dust and dip the finger in its pool. Take ash and wipe the forehead clean of guise. Mark countenance, that earthly..
This week we asked our bloggers to describe a failure or difficulty encountered in ministry. There are some lessons it seems like..
This week we asked our bloggers to describe a failure or difficulty encountered in ministry. Failure is a zeitgeisty concept right now...
This week we asked our bloggers to describe a failure or difficulty encountered in ministry. From the hardest time in my life,..
This week we asked our bloggers to describe a failure or difficulty encountered in ministry. Ever since I was a little girl..
A sermon originally preached at Village Presbyterian Church on January 11, 2015. 1 Timothy 2:8-12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 “Do you accept..
This week we asked our bloggers what they wish churches talked about more. More than any other topic, I wish churches would..
This week we asked our bloggers what they wish churches talked about more. It was the most diverse gathering of people I’d..
This week we asked our bloggers what they wish churches talked about more. My husband left this morning for his Credo conference...
But when they measured [the manna] out, everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those..
“Let's get this straight,” a friend asked me recently. “You went to seminary for four years, spent another year doing a chaplain..
A few days before Christmas, NPR's Radiolab released a program entitled "Worth." The first story, "How Much Would You Pay for a..
I take this term from a UMC minister, John Helmiere, who began a new worshipping community in Seattle called Valley and Mountain,..
1 - Remembering names. We sing, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” But, Dale Carnegie wrote that the sweetest sound to a..
Just what makes that little old ant Think he'll move that rubber tree plant Anyone knows an ant, can't Move a rubber..
A couple weeks ago, I reflected to a friend, "I am so sick of being sick!" Though much, much better than a..
“So, are you married?” It's a question I am often asked. And while this is a common question many receive regardless of..
Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the..
“For nearly one thousand five hundred years Christians have spent the days of Advent not in passive inaction, but in activities strenuous..
‘Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the land, churches are caught up in the season — the celebrations are grand...
Guest Outpost blog by Charlie Lee Story time I am a father to two young children. As any parent can tell you,..
Ten years ago, on a Sunday in early December, I was tucked in the choir loft of historic Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh,..
Let’s be honest. Advent, the season of contemplative waiting for Christ Immanuel to come, is seriously loosing ground to the chaotic rush..
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