Recent Blog Posts

1/15/2017 – Refresh 2017 – Part 1 – KINGDOM Matthew 13:24-30. What is the Kingdom of God like? When Jesus describes it as yeast and mustard and wheat and tares, what are we to learn?

12/24/2016 – Advent 2016 Just Christmas – Part 5 – Christmas Eve Matthew 2:1-12. A short exploration into the ways both Herod and the Wise Men hold up a mirror to our spiritual lives.

12/18/2016 – Advent 2016 Just Christmas – Part 4 – Love  

12/11/2016 – Advent 2016 Just Christmas – Part 3 – Joy Luke 15:11-32. Joy seems to be in short supply these days. It’s in especially short supply if we equate joy with happiness. Joy is, of course, much bigger than happiness, and is founded in a sense of...

12/04/2016 – Advent 2016 Just Christmas – Part 2 – Peace Matthew 1:1-17. The genealogy of Jesus as Matthew records it includes the names of four women, which was a shocking departure from how genealogies had always been recorded. What does this “surprising” genealogy...

11/27/2016 – Advent 2016 Just Christmas – Part 1 – A Thief, a Desert, and a Manger Matthew 24:42-44; Mark 1:4-8; Luke 2:6-7. A thief in the night. A wild-man in the desert. And a manger in a stable. These are three very curious ways to speak of Christ’s Advent – the...

11/20/2016 – Philippians – Part 6 Philippians 4:4-13. "I can do all this through him who gives me strength." This is probably the most well-known verse in Philippians ... and perhaps the most oft quoted verse of all of Paul's writings. It is also probably the most...