Being Honest About Suffering

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...
Faithful Small Step

Faithful Small Step

Today’s Sermon focus Small gifts, small steps are necessary but enough There 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...
Your Questions Matter

Your Questions Matter

Today’s Sermon focus The invitation is for you to ask questions, share your answers, and wonder about the mystery of it all. Back in my coffee cart days, I would get into very random conversations with folks, like bartenders or hairdressers do. One morning, a...
Love me, love my cat

Love me, love my cat

Today’s Sermon focus Jesus comes into our hearts with all his baggage! Us! When I was a kid, we had this cute little cross-stitch in the bathroom of a kitty cat with a ribbon around it’s neck with the saying, “Love me, love my cat.” I contemplated this little...
Living in Christ

Living in Christ

Today’s Sermon focus Living in Christ helps us soften our fears and opens us to the expansiveness of LOVE! We humans are a fearful bunch. There’s hardly a thing we’re not afraid of, including all sorts of things that should ideally not be sources of fear in our...
Both Shepherd and Sheep

Both Shepherd and Sheep

Today’s Sermon focus Communities of love are what happens when we practice being both shepherds and sheep I had a café for a few years, which I’ve talked about before. As someone who has hired, managed, and loved many young people over the years, I can tell you...