Watch the Whether

It’s easy to be influenced by the climate outside, especially when you’re in the throes of conditions that are unfavorable like dry seasons. But perhaps instead of waiting on the weather to change, there’s...

The Power of Playback

There’s power in the playback. Any music lover will tell you as much. Have you ever had a song played back to you and you were immediately whisked off to a time and a...

Beneath the Surface

Perhaps your evaluation of events as they’ve unfolded has moved you to mull the idea that there’s more life than just circumstance…Just maybe there’s something beyond what we can see or makes sense of,...

Increase the Uncommon

The world has had enough with normal. It yearns to see something it’s never seen before – something that changes the scenery, that alters the landscape. It yearns to see something it’s always seen,...

Dare To Declutter

At some point in time, everybody has one: a closet, a car, an attic or basement that has become cluttered. While it’s one thing for physical spaces to fall into disarray, how do we...

Treating Tension Deficit Sermon Series Week 3: “At the Well”

Destinations over detours? A propensity to assume rather than to ask? A preference for answers and extreme fear of inquiry? A strong tendency for the “exclamation points” and an irritability with the “ellipses?” The...

Treating Tension Deficit Sermon Series Week 2: “On the Warpath”

Treating Tension Deficit Sermon Series Week 1: “In the Waves”

Suited Up Sermon Series Week 4: “This is Vital”

For every assignment, there is an apparel. Coal miners, cops, surgeons of brains and servers of food and everyone in between—by virtue of their outer wear tells you something of their work. In fact,...

How, Lord, How?

Security, protection, comfort, power. Are these not things what we all want in life? Does any of this give us purpose? Is there more to life than just surviving and getting by? We all...

When the Going Is Tough

“Now on that same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they...

And the Survey Says…”

I can almost hear host, Gene Wood belting it out on the TV (or perhaps for many of you game show watchers it was Richard Dawson), but the words are burned into our...