Category Archives: Messages

In times of disruption, our first reaction is to try and recover what we believe has been lost.  Do you think we can resurrect the aluminum and steel mills and automobile plants and somehow get back on track?  That argument … Continue reading →

From the perspective of what “should have been”, the Jewish people were within days of entering the promised land. Had they remained focused on their mission as the chosen people they would have avoided the punishment of the 38 additional … Continue reading →

Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians puts me in mind Margie McAdams, the wife of a pastor I once knew.  It was her heart felt concern that Christians who before their meal in a restaurant bowed heads and said grace must leave … Continue reading →

Like snow melt filling the ponds and streams and then the tributaries of mighty rivers, the demands of God’s kingdom continue to grow.  And the ice dams, like that that held back the Missoula flood for untold years, will break … Continue reading →

Today’s texts Ezekiel 2:1-7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 present three examples of individuals called out and then sent out by God to speak to their communities. One thing we learn is that the quality of a gospel proclamation cannot … Continue reading →

Lament happens when we experience suffering that seems inconsistent with God’s hesed, when the door to God’s presence seems locked and barred from the inside. When circumstances cause us to question God’s hesed, we invariably reach out through lament. And … Continue reading →

Of course you heard about Continental’s flight #61 that arrived in Newark Thursday morning from Brussels, a flight on which the pilot died.  Can you imagine your stress level had you been that young co-pilot as he took into his … Continue reading →

We struggle with the question of how it was that what Jesus had to say was so upsetting to the leadership of the Judaism. It is hard for us to imagine the challenges these people heard in what Jesus shared.  … Continue reading →

Debra Murphy of the Ekklesia Project in writing to clergy persons trained and able to elucidate the fine distinctions between, say, Augustine and Origen or Moltmann and Marshall suggests that they may not be up on the latest treatise on … Continue reading →

Text: Acts 2: 1-21: Pentecost     Kate Huey wrote of our story from the Acts of the Apostles: it must have felt like creation all over again, with wind and fire, and something new bursting forth. Then there was … Continue reading →