As I mentioned in my last post, “desiring” is my star word for this year. The yellow glittery star is taped up in my craft room: Desiring. And the word is swelling my heart in unexpected ways as my husband and I dream about a home in the country. We’ve talked about it for several…
On Epiphany, fellow pastor and blogger Marci Glass was giving out star words–words to hold and ponder and listen to in the coming year. My word is desiring. And it has woven its way through these past five months with glitters and shimmers and quavers and shouts and sighs too deep for words. The good…
Continuing with the virtues from 2 Peter 1, here is this week’s call to worship: God’s divine power has given us everything everything we need for life everything we need for godliness everything we need. We are called by God’s glory. We are called by God’s goodness. And we are here receive God’s promises. God’s…
At Peace, we continue to explore the virtues listed in 2 Peter 1:3-11. Yesterday, I preached on ύπομοήν (hoop-o-mo-nay)–enduance, patience, perseverance, fortitude . . . It gets translated a lot of different ways. I’m having trouble choosing an excerpt from the sermon, but you can find the whole thing here. I will simply leave you…
At Peace this week, we will continue to talk about the virtues listed in 2 Peter 1. We’re on endurance/perseverance/patience. Our opening scripture is Romans 5:1-5, and here’s the call to worship that the passage inspired. In the midst of our failures, We stand in God’s grace. In the midst of our struggles, We boast…
I’m disturbed by the “good guy/bad guy” rhetoric that is swirling around the gun control debates and the drone discussions and the Boston bombing investigation. It is dangerous when we buy into the lie that people can be grouped into these categories of “good” and “bad.” It is dangerous for our public policy, it is…
[Below is an excerpt from a sermon I preached on All Saints’ Day a few years ago.] This vision John gives us is a beautiful vision. A necessary vision. It is a vision that Christians have clung to through persecution and war and slavery and untold numbers of personal sorrows and tragedies. “And I saw…
Sometimes, it’s just too much. The death and injuries caused by the bombs at the Boston marathon are heartbreaking. The talk of terrorist plots is deeply frightening–both because of what it means might happen to “us,” and what such talk might lead “us” to do to “them”–whoever “they” are. And then there was an earthquake…
Can decluttering be a spiritual practice? I’m sure it can. But I’ll be honest, my decluttering efforts these days are spurred on more by anxiety than spiritual maturity. My husband and I are hoping to buy a house on some acreage just out of town. He wants to have (more) chickens and gardens and fruit…
At Peace, we are beginning a worship series on virtues as outlined in 2 Peter 1:3-11. Our call to worship comes from Psalm 1: Blessed are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; Blessed are those whose delight…
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