Getting Beyond Ourselves

Getting Beyond Ourselves

Today’s Sermon focus Empathy is the path of love and getting beyond ourselves, not a sin. Recently, I was engaged in highly risky behavior. I was spending time online, ingesting people’s opinions on this, that, and the other thing. Dangerous, I know! It’s what...
Jesus’ Rules

Jesus’ Rules

Today’s Sermon focus Which rules are we playing by? God’s or ours? It makes all the difference. Nate and I have a long history of being very annoying board game players because we tend to not play by the rules. This drives serious board game players nuts....
The Good News of Christmas

The Good News of Christmas

Today’s Sermon focus Harmony in our voices is powerful and inclusive Like a few number of you I’m guessing, I watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special again this year. The best part of the whole wonderful thing is when Charlie Brown has finally had enough of...
Being Open to Christ

Being Open to Christ

Today’s Sermon focus Christ is always turning up where we least expect and sometimes least want One of the greatest Christmas movies of all time (imho) is “A Christmas Story.” It’s about a boy in 1939 who desperately wanted a Red Ryder BB gun. To him, this is...
Malarkey!

Malarkey!

Today’s Sermon focus We believe our own malarkey and we can cut it out in preparation for the coming of the Lord. A friend of mine recently told me about an amazing experience of hearing God talk to them in prayer. She heard a voice which was not hers and she...
Risking Participation

Risking Participation

  Today’s Sermon focus Participation in creation, not always as the stars of the show but hopefully as the stewards, the “do-ers” of justice A few days ago I went on a hike up Saddle Rock and there was a field trip going on of bunches of 5th...