I’m preaching on a difficult passage of scripture this Sunday, one I would not have chosen. This rough poem arrived mid-week as I found myself wrestling the text. Frustrated, I stopped to reflect on what I was doing and found myself invited to let...
My church’s interim pastor, Jay McDermond, spoke on the life of Peter last Sunday, spending much of his time focusing on Peter’s less admirable qualities. (I believe the words “bone head” may have been employed.) By human standards, Peter probably wasn’t the...
John 5:1-9 How long must you wait by the water’s edge for the angel to dip her fickle toe and stir the surface of the world? And what if even after days, months of waiting, watching, you sense the air’s movement, see the water shimmer with circle after concentric...
(The field of soybeans coming in across the street from our house.) Late, I arrived at a recent Pastoral Development Day on the tail-end of opening worship. I slipped quietly into a single stuffed chair down low in the back of the room, curling my legs and feet...
You have to return to the tomb to experience resurrection. Return to the place where once you knew without doubt all hope was gone, the last dying gasp of breath expelled. Then silence, stillness and the great tearing open of sky and earth. The first sign...
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