Imagine someone gave you a one-of-a-kind gift that was made especially for you. What would you do with it? Would you hide it under a rock or locked away or would you show it to others? Hopefully you would not just keep it to yourself but…
It’s pretty easy for us to remember that as disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to give ten percent of our money for God’s ministry. The stewardship season always focuses upon the financial aspect of our life, but there is more to being a steward – a caregiver – someone holding resources in trust for another…
In America, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds*. That’s nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week and 876,000 divorces a year. The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce is …
Who are you? Really. Take a moment to ponder that question…and then ask yourself how you came to that answer. Do we, that is, define ourselves by our accomplishments, or…
Proper 20B/Ordinary 25B/Pentecost 18 30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But […]
Identity is major issue for many folks. We want to be identified by our job, our sports team or our social status…
“He has done everything well”
What, then, is the church? The simplest answer is one which has already been made clear from scripture. The church is the people of God.
When I was an associate in South Carolina, we would regularly sing a song at Vacation Bible School about wanting to be a sheep…
56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they […]
Whither it is lightbulbs or anything else in our life, change can be challenging. As we continue to move into a different political reality in the United States, the church finds itself in shifting theological territory. Change is not something that the church, a giant multifaceted institution, handles very well.