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3 days ago2 min read
The Bigger Picture
"Peace, Be Still" by He Qi This weekend we are moving into the call of the first disciples in the gospel of Luke. Jesus, having just...
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7 days ago2 min read
Love-Hearts Day
I come by my sometimes unhealthy obsession with holidays honestly. Â As a child, my father was so captivated by these festivities that he...
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Jan 234 min read
Blessed are you when people take offense at you...
Grace & peace to you, my siblings in Christ! This week has been a stressful one for so many of us and for so many reasons. There are...
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Jan 142 min read
What Will We Do?
I remember being at Montreat (our national conference center) a decade ago over the summer following the fiftieth anniversary of the...
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Jan 31 min read
Work of Christmas
As we approach the end of Christmastide on January 6, Epiphany Day, I offer one of my favorite poems as a blessing for this new year...
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Dec 20, 20241 min read
Looking for baby Jesus
Christmas is just around the corner now. Which begs the question: how will you welcome the Christ-child into our midst? Almost five...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read
Thronged the air...
Not sure how this happened, but here we are at the middle of Advent - anyone else feel like they lost a few days somewhere? We spent our...
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Nov 20, 20242 min read
A little bit of Joy
What is your favorite Christmas song? I know - you think I've lost the plot since Thanksgiving is the next holiday up in the season - but...
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
Messy Thanksgiving
This weekend we are celebrating Thanksgiving in worship. One of the first scriptures I learned as a child was Psalm 100: "Enter God's...
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Nov 7, 20242 min read
A Sign of Grace
This weekend we will be doing something remarkable. But more on that in a moment... Our passages are coming to us from a small book in...
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
Give Thanks
I remember a few years back, I decided to take part in the daily thankfulness challenge for the month of November. The year was 2020. And...
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Oct 16, 20241 min read
A Kirking
This weekend we begin our season of fall celebrations in worship - and we won't stop until we hit the new year! We start this weekend by...
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Sep 26, 20242 min read
A Thesaurus & Some History
When I was a little girl, my mom kept three things close at hand when we were at the dinner table: an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a...
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Sep 20, 20242 min read
Time to Party
Installation weekend - the day so many have worked so long and diligently for has finally arrived! Anytime we mark such a major...
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Sep 12, 20243 min read
Giving into temptation...
Even though we have passed everyone's common question about the Lord's Prayer, this weekend we are getting to every youth parent's...
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Sep 5, 20241 min read
Well, which is it?
This weekend is the moment everyone has been waiting for since the day we said we were doing a series on the Lord's Prayer. We are...
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Aug 29, 20242 min read
Resurrection Story
Everything changes. Though the desert landscape provides a much slower version of this lesson than its more temperate counterparts, we...
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Aug 22, 20241 min read
Which Way?
For centuries, if not milenia, much of the Christian church has kept its believers focused on what will happen in the next life. For if...
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Aug 16, 20242 min read
My Kingdom for a...
A couple of years ago, the Little Giants (my twin boys), decided they wanted a birthday party with knights and castles and other such fun...
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Aug 8, 20241 min read
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy. Â Hagia . Â Kadosh . Â To set apart. Dedicate. Consecrate. Bless. Set as sacred. Â That is how we describe our God. But more than...
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