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  • Sunday Reflection – August 17, 2025

    Trouble, not peace Luke 12 49 I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire! 50  I am going to be put to a hard test. And I will have to suffer a lot of pain until it is over. 51 Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No…

  • Kids Korner: Following Jesus can be hard (August 17th)

    Read Luke 12:49-56 with your family. One of the things we teach children is to be nice like Jesus was nice. But anyone who has been bullied or ignored can tell you sometimes being nice is not always the best answer. The lesson today is very hard for adults to hear, so it can be…

  • Who wrote the Gospels?

    After last week’s blog post I got to thinking about how much people know about the Gospels in general. Sunday School education really doesn’t get into it, and most Sunday School teachers have never been taught the differences and assumed histories of the four Gospels in the first place. We have four Gospels in the…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 10, 2025

    Possessions that possess us Luke 12 32 My little group of disciples, don’t be afraid! Your Father wants to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot…

  • Kids Korner: Stop focusing on stuff (August 10th)

    Read Luke 12:32-40 with your family. Sometimes when we read stories in the Bible, we can easily pictures ourselves being there. As fun as that is, it is easy to let our imagination build a whole picture and we miss what Jesus was trying to teach. It happens to adults all the time, too. When…

  • Are the Scriptures lying to us?

    In the first few centuries, those in educational leadership in the church tried to conflate or harmonize the Scriptures. In this past century Biblical scholars have been trying to untie those assumptions. So what does that really mean? I was chatting with someone this week who asked why in the Gospel of John, John the…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 3, 2025

    Earth riches that do not last Luke 12 13 A man in a crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of what our father left us when he died.” 14 Jesus answered, “Who gave me the right to settle arguments between you and your brother?” 15 Then he said to the crowd,…

  • Kids Korner: Greed (August 3rd)

    Read Luke 12:13-21 with your family. What does greed look like? Often with children we show that greed is keeping all the cookies or not sharing them equally. But what does it look like in the world? Greed looks like some people and countries having too much food while other people and countries not having…

  • Do we still call ourselves Christian?

    Over the past few years I have seen many people announce on social media that they are no longer calling themselves “Christian” because of who the term has been associated with in movies and in the mainline press. The word “Evangelical” has received similar treatment. Those in the middle and on the progressive edges of…

  • Sunday Reflection – July 27, 2025

    More than one way to follow Jesus Luke 11 When Jesus had finished praying, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his followers to pray.” 2 So Jesus told them, “Pray in this way: ‘Father, help us    to honor your name.Come and set up    your kingdom.3 Give us each day    the…