How easily the true meaning of Christmas can be lost in the frenzy of unending Christmas activities – shopping and parties and shopping and caroling and buying and . . . . But rather than be discouraged by the misguided focus on the material rather than the holy that is so prevalent...
This Sunday we are going to be wrapping up our study in Hebrews by delving into chapter 13 – a chapter chalk full of important reminders of practical ways that we are to live out our faith on a daily basis. I encourage you to read Hebrews 13 before Sunday morning so you will be able to...
Friends,
This Sunday we’ll be in Hebrews 12 looking at the first two verses of this chapter. Take a few moments sometime in the next day to read through the passage and listen to God as this section conveys deep truths about following Jesus. I’m excited about delving into this...
When my mom was eight, she left Hong Kong. She had moved there when she was four, her younger brother was three, as a missionary family sent to work in hospitals. Her dad was a hospital administrator and her grandfather was a famous doctor who had lived and worked for 65 years in China...
Friends,
A couple of days ago an article I read referenced the book, Three Mile per Hour God. The idea of this book is that God’s preferred pace is 3 miles per hour—walking speed—and that we miss a great deal of what God has for us because we prefer freeway speed...
Friends,
Church congregations are quirky, fascinating, exasperating, and exhilarating. Sometimes they are all these in the same moment! Perhaps you’ve experienced this too. Congregations can feel like home, but that rarely happens right away. I’ve been to congregations that reminded...
Hope. When I asked google what the definition of hope is, I got “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” We all hope for things, don’t we? We hope that certain relationships will change. We hope for jobs, for children, to be able to buy a house in...
The age of anxiety was written in 1947 by W.H. Auden. The poem deals with humanity’s quest “to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Anxiety)
In some ways, the Israelites also...
Friends,
You will want to be on-time for the service this Sunday—that’s all I’m going to say about that. Come find out why!
After the service we’ll hold our annual congregational meeting. At that time we’ll receive the budget for the fiscal year and...