Handing Over the Bottle

Sometimes it’s a really big thing: an alcoholic discovering she is indeed loved by the One who created her; a marriage dissolving is slowly mended by a gracious turn of repentance and forgiveness; a lonely child realizing his worth is found in the life-giving words of...

The Three Most Important Days of the Year

For Christians, Maundy Thursday through Easter Sunday is considered to be the three* most important days of the entire year. It is during those holy “three days” or in Latin, the Triduum, where we journey with Jesus from his last supper with his disciples (Maundy...

God Sightings

Sometimes you just gotta love God! God’s always showing up in the most unexpected of places; at times when we’re not paying attention; in people we tend to ignore. Just yesterday, I was having a pretty bad day, and there was a knock at the door. The mail carrier hands...

Be Careful, One of Us Might Just Show Up

I’ve never actually been “church shopping.” I was born into a congregation, moved once when I was three, went to another one for 20 years, headed to seminary, and now have been a pastor…so needing to find a place to worship is something I’ve never had to do....