I resolve to live into my baptism. I resolve to remember my profession of faith. I renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness. I reject the evil powers of this world. I repent of my sin! I accept the freedom and power God gives to me. I resolve to resist evil, injustice, and oppression. […]
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Luke 2:1-20 Christmas is a love story. Christmas tells us of the love of God lavished on us… The Love of God, the story of the unfolding of Christmas really begins on the first page of the Old Testament. In Genesis one after creating light and the world the Creator creates us. We are […]
Today, we begin Advent- the first season of the Christian year! Advent comes before Christmas and speaks of “the coming or arrival of Christ”. Advent remembers God coming into the world as child. Advent invites us to let Christ come and rule our everyday living. Advent looks toward that day when Christ will come in […]
Thanksgiving does not come in a can..
Back twenty eight years ago Connie and I were dating. I finished my sophomore year at UK and prepared to spend the summer working at a church camp in Eastern Kentucky. On the day I was to leave I loaded all my belonging into my car “the Turd”. I drove a brown Corolla […]
Once upon a time a subsistence sharecropper was plowing a wealthy land owner’s field. Driven by need the sharecropper plowed past the established edges to increase his narrow margin. The sharecropper borrowed to pay for seed, did all of the work and took all of the risk. At the harvest he surrendered better than half […]
What does Memorial Day, July 4, or Easter mean? How,doe we mark time? Our secularized and commercialized culture has lost the root significance of our holidays. We have made our holidays about distraction, entertainment, consumption, feasting and personal satisfaction. We tend to celebrate nothing larger than ourselves. We have taken the “holy” out of our […]
How shall we now live? What will we do in seasons of loss, brokenness and disappointment? How do we tend our souls when we walk through a season of loss? We all feel loss differently. Facing loss we may grapple or go numb. Some narrow our eyes, grit our teeth and speak off handed […]
I loved to sit in the front seat of my dad’s car pretending to drive. My lips powered the engine’s throaty roar as I shifted through imaginary gears passing AJ Foyt to take the checkered flag and drink the victorious milk at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As much as I enjoyed those rides- the car […]
A Mother’s Day Prayer God of our Mothers, We come offering our thanks for life, love and mothers. Through Eve, You give us the gift of life Through Sarah, You bless every nation Through prophets, preachers, and pastors: Huldah, Joanna, and Priscilla- You speak! Through Mary you gave us the Perfect Revelation of Your […]
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