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Posted on November 28, 2021

Stranded on the side of a highway

A story of how I became overconfident but realized that I needed other people.

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Posted on April 2, 2021

Love your neighbor as a lost dog

A story of how a lost dog drew a bunch of people together, and how Jesus does too.

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Posted on January 8, 2021

The Great Conjunction of Promise and Hope

After a difficult year, maybe we all need a sign that God is with us in a troubled world, and we turned our eyes to the southwestern sky for a sign of hope.

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Posted on December 31, 2020

Words for the weary

There is Jesus, offering himself to the Weary, offering to carry part of their load, not to erase, but rather to ease their burdens from the heaviness of this world. And there are the people, touching Christ’s foot.

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Posted on December 9, 2020

Building on a broken rock

What are we to make of a Church that was built upon a foundation that is both rock and stumbling-block? And what does this mean for our churches as we move forward in unprecedented times?

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Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020

Loaves and fishes, hotdogs and apples

In a time of grief and fear, of isolation and overwhelming need, hope comes in the form of loaves and fishes, hotdogs and apples.

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Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

Ordinary prophets and Claire’s rock

God’s blessings are dispatched by ordinary prophets. This is our purpose, our vocation, as a church community so that we can be the “Anna” and “Simeon” to say a child’s name before God. We are here not just for ourselves, but for a grieving mother who shows up on a Monday night with rocks painted in her daughter’s memory.

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Posted on July 18, 2020July 31, 2020

Queen Anne’s Lace and cultivated roses

The Parable of the Wheat and Weeds is tough one, but there is room in my mountain field for both cultivated roses and wild Queen Anne’s Lace.

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Posted on May 18, 2020July 30, 2020

Holy Longing

We will not be gathering again in our sacred space as a community…. well, not yet. But where does that leave us, now? We remain in a time of holy longing. But God does not ­­live in the churches we build. God for whom we long is already close by.

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Posted on April 12, 2020April 14, 2020

Empty Tomb and Empty Church

Jesus came out of the empty tomb, into an empty burial ground. On that empty Sunday morning, even more empty than this church right now, only Mary Magdalene appeared. Perhaps, today is the most authentic Easter ever.

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