My idea of ministry has no interest in threats of eternal fire.
But it is interested in challenging you to resist injustice.
A House Divided
Sermons
Speak Lord
Samuel thought he heard a human. But he really heard God.
How are we to tell the difference between a person speaking and God speaking?
The Second Action
Honoring the soldiers is the first important action that we must observe as part of Memorial Day.
But there is a second, equally important, action…
The Spirit of Truth
The Holy Spirit speaks… Yes…
But the Holy Spirit also listens.
And the voice of the Holy Spirit, is our voice.
Call Your Mom
A. You’ve done your best
B. Now it up to them, but
C. The world is cruel so
D. Please, God, protect them!
Stuff-ology
The man in the crowd is interested in stuff.
Jesus, is not interested in stuff.
Jesus is interested in true life.
We Witness
…there is a kind of eternity in that moment that makes it shimmer with significance. A kind of spiritual conspiracy between the mystery that surrounds us, and the beating of our hearts.
Forgive and Remember
In the normal order of things, power follows strength. But in the case of forgiveness, it is not the aggressor who has the power. In the case of forgiveness, it is the person who has been wronged — the vulnerable person, the person who has been hurt — who is in the position of power.
An Easter Meditation
In our contemporary world, we are told that fact equals truth. But, if you will forgive me, this is a fairly recent assumption that comes to us from the Enlightenment and the development of the scientific method. For the vast majority of human history, truth was not communicated as fact.
It was communicated as metaphor.