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    Children can illustrate, in a few words, and with their very questions, some salient points that we struggle to convey.  Recently, my son, looked me over one day and innocently asked, “Mommy why are you so angry?”  Both he and his brother had been into mischief and I had reached my breaking point… [Read More]

Good Morning Church! In my heart, I believe “no matter who you are, no matter where you are, we are One by way of God’s Spirit.” In this, I suggest all who are here this morning are part of God’s Church. Therefore, I say again, “Good Morning Church!” Before I proceed, I want to provide… [Read More]

In Li-Young Lee’s poem, “Story,” (our contemporary reading for the day), a son asks his father for a story, a new story, and the father cannot think of one, try as he might.  He does not wish to disappoint his child, but he knows that he has, in the way that all parents know that… [Read More]

Let’s start here: You are not an accident.  You were put here for a purpose.  But even if you cannot allow yourself to believe that, let us together try to entertain the notion that the seeming “accident” of your life—in all of its very real complexity– is a happy accident.  We are not talking about… [Read More]

Intro. to Scripture:  Building on the parable of the sower that opened this whole parable chapter in Mark, today’s passage offers two more agricultural parables about fruit-bearing and sowing on the Kingdom of God.  They are not the most well-known of the sowing parables.  But they do pack a punch!  Eugene Peterson described parables as… [Read More]

Friends—In a minute, I’m going to share three short stories about some folks who are waiting.  At the end, I will share a fourth story.  See if you can find yourself somewhere in these lives.  See if something about them resonates or calls out to you. He waited.  Sometimes he waited in the canvas-backed chair… [Read More]