Faith Explorations

You Don’t Define Your Worthiness

You Don’t Define Your Worthiness

Today's Sermon focus God defines your worthiness as whole and complete. Anything less is wrong. There are certain parables and stories in the Bible that can really irritate people. We love to love Jesus when he’s calling out the hypocrites. Or when he’s talking about...

Beyond Transaction

Beyond Transaction

Today's Sermon focus God's love is not transactional and we are asked to love in the same way. And that's hard, indeed.When I became a pastor, I was surprised about the questions I sometimes get out in the world meeting new people. Apparently, sometimes oddly serious...

Growing Up

Growing Up

Today's Sermon focus Jesus loves you! And he says it's time to grow up just a bit more for the sake of love.The police in Chelan arrested a young man this week for starting the 4th of July Chelan fire that resulted in lost homes, untold amounts of stress, and death....

Dolly the Disciple

Dolly the Disciple

Today's Sermon focus God bless, Dolly Parton! She showed us what it is to pick up our cross and follow. I hope the billionaires, along with the rest of us, are listening to her example.It really became clear to me this week is the one thing we seem to agree on in this...

Conforming to Christ

Conforming to Christ

Today's Sermon focus What or who are a conforming to? It's something, so let it be Christ.Several years ago, I learned a form of leadership coaching that ideally helps people access the capacity or wisdom within folks in order to meet the needs of the moment and...

Calm in the Storm

Calm in the Storm

Today's Sermon focus We only need to believe enough to ask for help. This is enough to get a little calm in the storm. How are you sleeping these days? Are you resting is blissful oblivion or are you laying awake for hours? Or something in between? I’ve always had...

Being Needy

Being Needy

Today's Sermon focus We like to pretend we're not needy but who are we kidding, really? Not Jesus!I somehow grew up with the notion that one of the worst things you could ever be was being needy. That might be a particularly Gen X thing, but I also know it’s not just...

Spaciousness of God

Spaciousness of God

Today's Sermon focus Where is the kingdom of heaven emerging? How about in you?  Let’s start with the absolute best part of the gospel today and that is when Jesus asks the disciples, “Do you understand all of this?” And then they say emphatically, “Yes!” We all know...

What’s Up with the Weeds?

What’s Up with the Weeds?

Today's Sermon focus We live in a messy reality all for the sake of love.As we grow up, we learn all the tricks of being human. Well, maybe not all the tricks, but we pick up things as we go. I remember figuring out that conversations work a lot better for you if you...

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