Tears, Comfort, and Old Hymns
This morning, our church choir shared some of the great hymns of the faith with our church in a cantata style celebration of music. Instead…
Living Redeemed
A Different Kind of Proof
A man named Bob Ebeling thought he was a loser. Mr. Ebeling was an engineer on the Challenger Space Shuttle and discovered that the O-ring…
Momentum for Life: Vision for Immanuel
God spoke: Write this! Write what you see! Write it out in big block letters so it can be read on the run! And…
Blogging as a form of Public Theology
I just spent the last couple of days in Washington, D.C. exploring what it means to be a public theologian. Over the last year, I…
Face-to-Face
There is a struggle and a tension I have with facebook. If I am going to be honest, it is one of my primary sources…
Reproducing in the Church #NaBloPoMo
I was sitting at a conference with some friends and the speaker kept lifting up the decline in membership of the United Methodist Church. One…
When I was in high school, my youth group went on an international mission trip to Peru. Forty youth plus chaperones set out from Cedar…
truth and reconciliation
I read a post earlier today that dives into the words Bree Newsome said as she was arrested this weekend: The Lord is my light and…