Featured: So, now what?
It's the week after Easter. Chocolate bunnies eaten, eggs hidden, found, and turned into egg salad, leftover ham served on sandwiches, Easter hymns sung and put away til next year. And here we are … Now what? Our pastor said in his Easter sermon: We are people of the resurrection! And my question is: What […]
“A test: try living the life of a good person and see how it suits you. Be the one happy with her fate, rejoicing in his acts of justice, and bent on deeds of kindness.” (Marcus Aurelius, 121 – 180)
I taught yesterday at one of our satellite venues. I stated that the way the incarnation happened demonstrates (as does almost all of Jesus’ life) that God's heart, as Philip Yancey writes, tilts toward the underdog. I shared the Scripture from Isaiah that Jesus read in Luke chapter 4 as he inaugurated his earthly ministry […]
A post-Christmas question: Do you live as if God came down to you? or Do you live as if it is all up to you to make your way to God?
When I was little, I built up Christmas in my mind … and then I was always vaguely disappointed with the actual day. It never lived up to all my childlike hype. The gifts were just stuff. The food was just food. The day came and went … I often feel that same sense of […]
We did a tiny bit of last minute shopping today and the store we were in had that frenzied feeling ... It is very common this time in December. I know “that frenzied feeling” well … Several times it has taken me down. Tanked my Christmas spirit. Hijacked my joy. Chewed me up and spit […]
As friends and family gather near to celebrate Christmas, let us remember to revere each person, no matter how difficult we find them to be … If we all remembered this one thing, our holiday gatherings would surprise us: “A procession of angels passes before each human being wherever he or she goes, proclaiming: Make way […]
