restoration
His Cave was not His Grave
Elijah’s story reminds us that God meets us in the cavern of our own despair and discouragement and changes everything.
Chuck Warnock
trinity sunday
Trinity: The Wind and the Dance
The word Trinity never appears in Scripture, and yet the whole arc of the Bible bends toward this deep wonder: God is not solitary. God is relational. God is love.
Pentecost
The Story Continues: Pentecost
The same Spirit that reversed Babel, fulfilled ancient promises, and launched the early church is still moving today - creating understanding where there's confusion, building bridges where there are walls, and reminding us that we're all part of one magnificent, ongoing story.
Eastertide
Swimming in an Ocean of Love
Most of us grew up thinking Christianity was about following Jesus – being good, following rules, trying our best to live like he did. But here, Jesus reveals something deeper. He's inviting us into the family circle, into the very heart of divine love itself.
Eastertide
Lydia and the Awe of Heaven
By the time the Spirit reroutes Paul to Macedonia, Lydia has already turned from the Roman gods of her city and aligned herself with the One God of Israel. So when Paul spoke of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, Lydia took the next step in the path she was already walking.
Eastertide
Love: The Mark of a New Creation
When we love as Jesus loved – across differences, beyond our comfort, despite possible disappointment – we make the invisible God visible. Our love becomes the lens through which others can glimpse the divine reality that holds all things together.
Eastertide
The Shepherd's Voice: Security in an Uncertain World
As always, our Easter journey is about hearing the Shepherd who knows us by name, gives us eternal life, and holds us securely in his hands.
Easter
Do You Love Me? Lessons from the third Sunday in Easter
Resurrection is not a one-and-done event. It is a way of seeing. A way of being. A rhythm of grace that pulses through every act of love, every turning of sorrow to song.
spirit
Peace Be Unto You: The Breath Between Doubt and Wonder
What if this Sunday, we remembered that resurrection isn’t about escaping doubt, or dancing over death, or pretending we have no wounds? What if it is this: that Jesus meets us right in the middle of our fear, our ache, our questioning, and breaths?
Easter
The Imagination of God
Resurrection is not the reversal of death. It is God’s radical imagination of life itself. It exemplifies the certainty that divine love is not hemmed in by what we think possible.
Holy Week
The Singer in the Parking Lot
We don’t usually see a guy singing in the parking lot at our grocery. After all, we live in suburbia, not downtown. But we heard him as we walked from our car toward Aldi’s. When I saw him, my first thought was he might be a little off.
Palm Sunday
Strange Road to Peace: From a Donkey and to the Cross
Palm Sunday to Good Friday -- a week that began with high hopes, only to end in what appeared to be tragic defeat. But things were not as they seemed.