Advent

Expectations and Realities

Sermon based on Luke 1:39-55 and Matthew 11:2-6 About a year ago, I began working with Imagine No Malaria here in the Iowa Conference, and…

October 26, 2013 1

I sat down with the Bishop a few weeks ago and he asked me if I was still writing. It was a hard question for…

Imagine No Malaria Guest Sermon – Advent 2 When we lit our advent candles just a few minutes ago, we were reminded that not…

I imagine your mother and your grandmother would have loved being the host for the last night of LasPosadas… That she would have opened up…

I have been trying to really practice the season of Advent this year. I have a nightly devotion by Adam Hamilton that I am reading…

December 14, 2010 7

“Las Posadas” by Maria Laughlin As Christmas approaches, we are reminded that a very pregnant young woman and her patient fiancé were once left out…

This morning in worship we focused on John the Baptist’s question to Jesus: How do I know that you are the one? Are you him?…

I cannot escape pregnancy these days. As blogger Traci Bianchi reminds us: The Christmas story is dripping with estrogen. And not only that… but the…