Sing! Play! Summer! – Chainbreaker
Text: Isaiah 58:6-9, Psalm 107:10-16 For the first 20 or so years of my life, I understood salvation as one concrete idea: that Jesus died…
confession
We Have Found the Messiah
“I am not the Messiah” That’s probably pretty obvious to all of you. Of course, I’m not the Messiah. But I wasn’t talking about me….
The Beloved Community
Today, we enter the world of Micah… a prophet from the late 8th century… just over 700 years before Christ. And to put ourselves in…
Confession of faith
I confess… Tonight our confirmation students were asked to state their faith. To imagine that they had been arrested for their faith and had to…
Two Texts: Privilege and the Beloved Community
In my life, I have been pulled over by a police officer perhaps half a dozen times. One was for a broken taillight and the…
True Worship
“We keep a troubled vigil at the bedside of the world,” writes Howard Thurman, “Thus we clutch the moment of intimacy in worship when we…
Confessions before General Conference
In the past few weeks, between holy week services and fundraiser dinners and youth group and church meetings and the normal day to day business…
Feasting, not fasting…
Mark’s gospel is known for its haste. Jesus is here and then there and everything is so urgent and busy. We spent four weeks in…