“Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” | Romans 12.2 “‘Do not conform’ is difficult advice in a generation when crowd pressures have unconsciously conditioned our minds and feet to move to the rhythmic drumbeat of the status quo. Many voices and forces urge us to […]
Happy New Year! Now, before all of confetti is accounted for and removed, before the balloons begin to deflate, returning to their natural state, before you and I lose the momentum of the moment and the newness of this year rubs off, I want to ask you to do something. I know that it will […]
God in the flesh, Christ- Child, mysterious majesty, today we remember the wonder of Your birth. We lower our gaze to look at God face- to- face. The beginning meets our start. This is the heart of the gospel. Because God has come to the lowly, to and through the least likely. What manner of God is this? […]
God in the flesh, who reigns from a lowly manger, not draped in fine robes but wrapped in milk rags, who calls into question our lavish lifestyles, our lust for power and the images we create of it. God in the flesh, who came not flanked with angels, who brought not the might of heaven […]
“Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors And see all the people.” Life in community is not as simple and straightforward as this children’s rhyme would lead us to believe. There is more to the church than the building and more to the building than its members. Instead, we gather each […]