How to read Jesus on Lust & Divorce
Last weekend we finished up 2 of Jesus’s more “culturally” difficult teachings in the Sermon on the Mount around the topics of sexuality. Namely that while sexual desire is a…
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Ash Wednesday Service
Lent is the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday (not counting Sundays). It has been marked by restraint and fasting by believers since the Council of Nicea in…
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When others exclude you…
Last weekend we were wrapping up the Beatitudes as the introduction to Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. It ends with a statement of blessing over those that have experienced persecution…
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What if blessings aren’t transactional?
We often read Jesus’s intro to the Sermon on the Mount as a list of things that you must do in order to be blessed but what if that wasn’t…
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You will get what you want…most of the time.
“You will get what you want…most of the time.” Of course there are always qualifiers to that kind of blanket statement. I may want a Dodge Durango Hellcat but I…
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Does truth matter?
There’s a video floating around of Keanu Reeves talking about a conversation he had over dinner with a friend’s kids about The Matrix. They hadn’t seen the films and so…
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Is ‘Deconstruction’ a bad word?
If you google most anything on church trends right now, you’ll find some statistic or blog post on the declining church. Pew Research regularly conducts surveys on “The Rise of…
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Christmas Adam: Christ, Carols, Candles, Community & Cookies
Tonight we are gathering for one of my favorite worship services of the year, Christmas Adam. It’s our annual Candlelight Christmas Service and it falls on the day before Christmas…
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Not afraid to jump!
I remember the first time I ever went rappelling as a kid. It was at a summer camp where I would eventually become a staff member and meet Deidra, who…
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Is God in the Sunrise?
Like most mornings, Jonathan and I are busting out of the house trying to get him to school on time. This morning, as we drove up the hill in front…
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Jesus’s gentle offer to rule and reign.
The story we find in the scriptures is one of love and grace but it’s also one of kingdoms, kings, rebellion and chaos. If you really dig into these stories,…
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