PASTORAL MINISTRY How the Church Can Help Recovering Addicts: Part 3 November 10, 2016 1 Comment This is part 3 of a series about addiction and the church. You can read part 1 here. I didn’t want …
SPIRITUAL FORMATION An Election-Day Confession: A Search for Peace November 08, 2016 1 Comment “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world …
OUR WORLD The Good You Can Do November 07, 2016 0 Comment John Wesley was an evangelist and a philanthropist. The strange warming he described feeling in his heart at Aldersgate was …
PASTORAL MINISTRY Disability Ministry: Pursuit over Accommodation November 03, 2016 2 Comments I want to talk to you about disability ministry. Already, I realize that I have initiated one of three typical …
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY High Five! Five Ways to Communicate with Parents November 02, 2016 0 Comment Not everyone owns a horse. Most of us don’t have the luxury of galloping through town shouting Paul-Revere-esque announcements to …
SPIRITUAL FORMATION The Call of Discipleship February 22, 2021 0 Comment Whenever a crisis happens in the United States, people wonder, What now? It’s a question that can make us feel …
SPIRITUAL FORMATION Eve and Adam: Temptation 101 February 24, 2022 0 Comment The Adam and Eve story is so familiar that, when artists depict it, they don’t have to show much to …
FAMILY The Mother I’m Not December 01, 2016 0 Comment There are scenes from my childhood that play out in my mind when I think of my mother. She’s standing …
FAMILY A Lesson in Childlike Love February 15, 2017 0 Comment My children draw them with their fingertips, on every fogged windowpane, on every frost-glazed windshield, in the dirt of every …
THEOLOGY The Lost Practice of Obedience December 21, 2017 0 Comment There is a notion that comes out of the monastic tradition of the early church that obedience to one’s superiors …