As you may know, this church has a tradition of hosting daily noontime services of worship Monday through Friday during Holy Week. This year will be my second time planning and hosting these services as your pastor. While different pastors have taken different approaches to these services down through the years, I have made it a priority to invite a … Read More
Jan-Feb 2024: Spiritual Resolve
New Year’s resolutions: we’ve all made them, we’ve all broken them. Sometimes we set realistic goals—lose a few pounds, drink a little less caffeine, read a little more. Sometimes we set less realistic goals—I’ll let you provide your own examples of those. Even though we struggle to consistently do the things we’ve resolved to do in the new year, I … Read More
Sept-Oct 2023: Role of the Holy Spirit
As we’ve been walking through the Acts of the Apostles over the last few months, we’ve discovered the central role of the Holy Spirit in so many aspects of the Christian life. The Spirit opens our hearts and minds to God. He teaches us the truth of the Good News about Jesus Christ. He gives us spiritual gifts for God’s … Read More
August 2023: Infant Jazz Hands
Infant Jazz-Hands, Saul of Tarsus, and the Everlasting Love of God Almost two years ago now, when my twin girls Eve and Adah were only a few weeks old, I made a joking-but-also-serious Facebook post about them. The post was about how, of all the things I wanted to teach my daughters—things about the love of Jesus, about the ways … Read More
July 2023: Evangelism
As of the time I’m writing this, we’ve been walking through the Acts of the Apostles together on Sunday mornings for seven weeks. If you’ve been able to join us, you may have noticed at least one prominent theme that keeps surfacing again and again in the text: the announcement of the Good News about Jesus. It goes by many … Read More
