February 2, 2020 As some of you know, I am obsessed with the Campus Quilts Company, which makes T shirts into quilts. I am so thankful because many of you, along with ladies from other churches, knitted and crocheted blankets for my babies, and I didn’t want to give them away, although my baby days […]
January 26, 2020 In the very first Star Wars movie, viewers are introduced to the Death Star, a giant planet-sized weapon that can aim at and obliterate entire worlds with a single shot. Unfortunately, somebody stupidly (or, deliberately) put in a “thermal exhaust port,” a shaft leading directly to the Death Star’s nuclear reactor core. […]
January 19, 2020 One of my legal clients has a lot of engineers on staff. They brought me in to try to explain an area of the law. I wrote them a memorandum of about eight pages detailing how they should go about this project from a legal perspective and what documents they would need […]
January 12, 2020 What is sin and what is not? There are so many ways we can talk about sin: Sin as breaking God’s law Sin as separation from God Sin as disobeying God Sin as missing the mark of righteousness All of these fit with the biblical account of what sin is, but ultimately, […]
January 5, 2020 How do we deal with Christians who believe differently than we do? It’s not hard to find them…even in our own churches. There are so many ways in which Christians divide from one another. On one side, there are evangelical Christians, on another, mainline Protestants like ourselves, then Roman Catholics, Orthodox believers, […]
December 29, 2019 I was looking for a pinata for New Year’s Eve and I was immediately presented with two choices: No Trump 2020 Pinata Make America Great Again 2020 Pinata Political leaders are, and always have been, polarizing. Therefore, if you don’t like the current leadership, Paul’s words are concerning to say the least. […]
December 22, 2019 So we’ve got three days to Christmas. Where are you at mentally? Are you more Buddy the Elf or more Grinch? More Tiny Tim or Ebeneezer Scrooge? More “Go Tell It On the Mountain” or “Going through the motions?” This time of year tends to bring out the best and the worst […]
December 1, 2019 Have you ever seen something coming, something really big, and been just truly afraid, truly terrified, for what was going to happen to you, to your family and community, to the nation, to the world? In Isaiah 7, Ahaz is truly afraid. In fact, the Scripture says he was quaking in his […]
November 24, 2019 Romans 12 is like the guide to living a Christian life; it’s the blueprint, so to speak, for living as Christians through the challenges of this world. Last week, when we ordained elders, they promised to serve with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love—and that’s very much what Paul calls us all to […]
November 18, 2019 I love The Battle Hymn of the Republic; it’s hard not to become emotional singing those moving words, glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marching on. Originally, the lyrics included “as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.” However, at the time of World War II, […]