Today has been a lazy day. I’ve spent much of it on the couch playing games and watching movies. It’s been a lazy week, really, and I’m not to proud to admit it. I feel like I’m kind of in a funk right now – like I have been working too hard and I just…
Work In Progress
I have been needing a place to post sermons – and so in the next week’s I’ll be going back through and backdating/updating with my sermons from the past year. Check back soon!
FF: Take Me, Baby, or Leave Me
Although written by a young man, this song from “Rent” became an anthem for women of a certain age ready to be taken on their own terms. Maureen and Joanne love each other, but they are *very* different. Whether it’s new friends or new loves or new employers, what are five things people should know…
Take Me Home.
Today was bitterly cold outside. So cold in fact that they cancelled school. And I cancelled church activities. You just didn’t want to go outside unless you had to. I’m not being a wuss – I’m talking record setting all time lows here – you would get frostbite in 7 minutes in this weather. I…
Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
This morning one of our small groups met and I started Joyce Rupp’s “The Cup of Our Lives” with them. It thought it went really well! I’m also now up to 5 youth and a male chaperone besides myself who are able to go on our youth mission trip this summer. Which is fantastic! I…
Winter
Yeah, I know it’s been winter for like three weeks now, but we are getting some pretty heavy winter weather in Iowa this week. I normally take Monday mornings off – to recouperate from the weekend – and then head in to the office after lunch. But I didn’t really feel like shoveling the driveway,…
Whose Baptism?
For a few weeks, I have felt a bit off in my sermon prep. The pieces I wanted to come together hadn’t, and it just seemed like the message wasn’t connecting with people where they were. This week, I surely had a much different focus going into the sermon than what was produced, but I…
Whose Baptism
Acts 19:1-7, Mark 1:4-11 This morning I want to share with you a modern parable about a group of men who drove to Des Moines in order to see a crazy traveling preacher that had made her way to Iowa. The gal’s name was Jane B. and she dressed in all black and leather with…