2020 Vision

January 5, 2020
How do we feel about 2019, and how is the new year starting?  Paul wrote the letter of Ephesians to bless and encourage all the churches that his letter might…

Images of Christmas

December 8, 2019
There are all kinds of images surrounding us at Christmas.  Isaiah gives us different images for the coming of Jesus, God among us, and the Kingdom of God that was…

1969: In the Meantime

December 1, 2019
Just as Black Friday can take us away from the real meaning of Thanksgiving, our wants, needs and fears can take us away from the real meaning of this Advent…

Us and Them

May 19, 2019
God is a God of mission.  God revealed his mission to Peter; challenging his faith paradigm.  At that time Jews and Gentiles were polarized much like republicans and democrats, or…

The Perfect Body

March 17, 2019
Our lives, as in the time of the Apostle Paul, are often shaped by consumption.  We desire, among other things, to have perfect bodies. Yet the truly perfect bodies are…

Christmas Eve Service

December 24, 2018
It is time to celebrate what we have been longing for and anticipating over the last several weeks of Advent: Jesus is born.  God has become human and will dwell…
The way of the Lord is the way of righteousness.  As we begin the season of Advent--a season of watching and waiting--we join with Jeremiah in bringing a message of…