Faith Explorations
Being Honest About Suffering
Today's Sermon focus The Holy Space of Telling the Truth In life, we all know there are roads we don’t want to walk. We don’t want to walk through the valleys of the shadow of death. We don’t want to walk through grief or health challenges. Or disability. We don’t...
Faithful Small Step
Today's Sermon focus Small gifts, small steps are necessary but enoughThere once was a fundraiser who raised money for an international hunger nonprofit, The Hunger Project. In her book, The Soul of Money, she told the story of going to accept the biggest gift this...
Evolution and Jesus
Today's Sermon focus We Follow Jesus, Our Good ShepherdIn 1859, Darwin published his famous treatise, Origin of the Species, in which he lays out the basic blueprint for evolution through competition or survival of the fittest. To say this book had an impact on our...
Herod the Coward
Today's Sermon focus This gospel is not a raw potato, but a feast for understanding our choices for loving others well. Earlier this week, I was visiting Elmer, otherwise known as Stitz, with his daughter Becky. We were doing a brief communion service at his place....
The Nature of Power
Today's Sermon focus Walking in Trust with Christ - Moving Forward with a Holy 'Yes!'I was a part of a book club for many years in Reno and we read all sorts of things. Novels, essay collections, short stories, non-fiction – all over the place. One of them was a...
On the Brink
Today's Sermon focus Jesus knows us in our wholeness. We are whole, whether we accept that or not!The first anniversary of Richard’s death was yesterday. There was a gathering here, which if you didn’t make it, you can imagine had some tears but also joy in people...
Living our Stormy Seas
Today's Sermon focus Why is Jesus asleep when I'm about to die!? What does he know that I don't?A long, long time ago, Nate and I were shopping for our first home. In 2001 in Reno, it was one of those competitive markets for buyers, so you had to be on your toes to...
Where is God? Good question…
Today's Sermon focus We're in a conversation with the Bible that is more complex and nuanced than we often know. And yet the truth of God is still there, in the branches of the mustard tree.I had read a description of adulthood a while ago that has stuck with me. They...
Identity Matters
Today's Sermon focus We do not need to be caught in shame. Christ sets us free! Couple weeks ago I heard two wildly different news stories about Taylor Swift within a day or two of each other. One was about a preacher somewhere declaring that Taylor Swift has a...
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