There are days I wake and feel like the last sane man in a house on fire, and […]
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So, yesterday was my 50th Birthday. Fifty years is a significant milestone. For half a century, I have […]
Pastors sometimes get attacked for preaching “impractical” sermons. We are accused of preaching about things that are too […]
Many know Jesus’ parable of the two sons and their generous, forgiving father. We especially love how it […]
Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 10 come to us as a warning, a cautionary tale about the dangerous […]
The Gospel lesson for today is a strange little text. In fact, when I first read it the […]
The young preacher noticed that one of his elderly parishioners never came up for ashes on Ash Wednesday. […]
A Madrašâ for Ash Wednesday based on Joel 21.Blow the siren, let the streets go silent,Let the town […]
Ah, the season of Lent greets us again, and like spring, it comes with a host of colors, […]
An old professor of mine, and by that I mean he was my professor a long time ago […]
It is hard to argue with Joel’s excellent article concerning pastors being visionaries in their congregations, but I […]
Pastors claiming to have a vision for their church have often been maligned for sounding charismatic, stealing God’s […]
I like to think most of us have at least one person in our lives, perhaps a parent […]
At the end of the book of Deuteronomy, we find God’s people gathered on the plains of Moab. […]
Work it with sweat long enough and you’ll discover that there’s a certain stubbornness in the land, in […]
One thing which seems to have been lost in our age is the idea of the sacred. We […]
Perhaps you have seen pictures of those ancient couples found in an eternal embrace in a grave. You […]
The frail light settles in the meeting place where our knowing ends, and the unmeasured begins. Mystery, they […]
Welcome to———Church. I’m DJ Pastor, MC for JC, choosing hymns and fueling souls. Blah, blah, blah. I’m sure […]
As if caught up in a fever dream, she pushed her way through the crowd of mourners and […]