Take the Time

February 19, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Busy. Busy. Busy. It has become the hum that sounds throughout American life and dare I say, the world. Now, we wrestle to make time for the Eternal. We struggle to squeeze the omnipresent God into overcrowded schedules, to follow Christ in overcommitted lives. We have signed up for newsletters, coupons and alerts. We have […]

Return

February 14, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Return “…You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” | Genesis 3.19, NRSV Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, the forty- day period where believers fall in step with Christ’s journey to the cross. It is an exodus from excess. We strip bare our lives from distractions that would take our […]

Give up stereotypes for Lent

March 20, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself […]

Breaking up the fallow ground

March 15, 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

“For thus says the Lord to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.” {Jeremiah 4.3, NRSV} An agrarian reference familiar to the farmers who heard the prophet Jeremiah’s message, the call to “break up your fallow ground” might be far removed […]