Today is the First Sunday in Advent. It’s the first Sunday of the Church’s year. It’s the season where we prepare spiritually for celebrating the coming of the Jesus at Christmas. In the spirit of Advent, the title for our sermon series is “All I Want for Christmas is Jesus.” In a season of so…
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Posts from November 2020
My 3-year-old Daisy and her good friend Lynn play together constantly. Sometimes it’s funny to listen to the disagreements they get into. Just the other day they were playing together, and Daisy wanted to pretend it was imaginary nap time. Lynn, on the other hand, didn’t want to play that game and instead wanted to…
How do we stay anchored when presidents change? When we don’t even know who the president is? How do we stay anchored when we feel the person that gets elected is going to end life as we know it? The Apostle Paul wrote to a community of Christians in Rome. At the heart of the…
One thing that has become increasingly turbulent in our day is increasing polarization and antagonisms. There is a feeling that we have to take sides and if you don’t take the right side, watch out, you are the enemy. One of my seminary professors David Fitch, calls this the Enemy-Making Machine. What happens is people…