This Sunday our vocabulary shape is a circle, giving a method for discernment and growing as disciples using situations and issues that...

Last week we looked at Jesus’ core teachings of love God & people, pour out & fill up, and unity with God and others. It’s simple, but...

When I was a kid and unchurched, I thought being Christian was all about making yourself believe certain things about God. Christians so...

On Christmas Eve 97 people experienced candlelight and the telling of the Christmas story with light. It was a powerful experience of God...

We’ve been hearing the Christmas story from the gospels of Matthew & Luke, of a baby being born in Bethlehem, of shepherds, and angels,...

I know the difference between getting by and really living. There have been seasons in my life when I was plowing forward as fast as I...

Cold & flu season is upon us and it got me, not bad, but with enough of a cough to make leading worship pretty difficult. I am so...

We tend to see what we look for. When I was pregnant, it suddenly seemed as if there were pregnant people everywhere. It wasn’t true, I...

It’s actually pretty scandalous, God being born. That is messy business with pain, discomfort, chills, and exhaustion. But it was the...

Our Christian influence is felt strongest when we build others up. It starts with hearing God’s call. God calls each of us uniquely, to a...

This week we’ll hear from Bishop Cedrick via video, on the stuff in our lives and the ways Jesus’ influence impacts our time. Bishop...

On social media, influencers are people with millions of followers who sell time to corporate sponsors, making millions of dollars. I can...

This is perhaps the toughest week.  Next Tuesday all the rhetoric, the positioning, the discussion will be over and votes will be cast....

Compassion transforms the world and we can only hold hard-lined positions when we have no lived experience of the issue. Immigration is...

As Christ-followers, compassion is non-optional. Our faith is expressed in our voting and God is transforming the world through us. Hard...

An election is coming. There are signs and ads telling you who to vote for. The news is telling you about issues and where the candidates...

I remember hearing about faith & freedom before Jesus got a hold of me. It didn’t make any sense. From what I could see, faith was just...

One of the marks of a Christian is forgiveness. One of Jesus’ core commands was to forgive everyone, even your enemies. And then Jesus...

When I was researching fear last week, one of the standard human fears is fear of the unknown, especially around the future.   Let’s be...

It was a small boat and the waves were big. Too big. These are kind of swells that topple boats over and everyone drowns. They were...