For the past 3 months, I am happy to say I have added a new language to the list of languages I speak. Many of you are familiar with thisContinue readingAmazing Grace: It’s Mother’s Day – Sunday May 14, 2023

I never paid much attention to verses 8-11 in our passage today. In fact, I can’t say that I had ever really noticed them. But Christ’s interaction with Philip, hisContinue readingAmazing Grace: The Way – Sunday May 7, 2023

Luke 24:13-15 There’s an old joke, pretty common, about United Methodists. I’ve heard it said about Presbyterians and Lutherans too but its our joke. Did you know that we actuallyContinue readingAmazing Grace: At the Table – April 23, 2023

John 20:19-31 If the disciples, were in a scary movie, if the disciples as we encounter them in the gospel of John chapter 20 were in a scary movie, IContinue readingAmazing Grace: Breakthrough – April 16, 2023

Matthew 28:1-10 They did not come expecting to find resurrection but resurrection found them anyway. It was dawn, early morning. I can picture them walking, beginning in darkness and, withContinue readingEaster Sunday – April 9, 2023 – Resurrection Finds You

Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14 I find it interesting that our passage today falls where it does in the season of lent. I mean, we are two weeks away from Easter andContinue readingBeautiful Things: Out of the Dust – Dry Bones – Sunday March 26, 2023

“’I wanted to prove to everyone that I was somebody.’ ‘You’re 5 feet nothin’, 100 and nothin, and you’ve got hardly a speck of athletic ability and you hung inContinue readingBeautiful Things: Out of the Dust – Through Heaven’s Eyes – Sunday March 19, 2023

Scripture: Exodus 17:1-7 & Isaiah 43:16-21 Sometimes I struggle to have empathy for the Israelites. That feels like a horrible thing for me to say as a pastor but itContinue readingBeautiful Things: Out of the Dust – Is The Lord With Us Or Not? – Sunday March 12, 2023

What did you give up to be here? I’ll never forget the time a district superintendent asked me that question. It was the fall of 2012, maybe spring 2013, andContinue readingBeautiful Things: Out of the Dust – Abram and Sarai – Sunday March 5, 2023

Facebook Video Today we begin at the beginning, we focus on Genesis, the first book of the Bible. “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2Continue readingBeautiful Things: Out of the Dust – Adam and Eve – Sunday February 26, 2023