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  • Lent 2026

    Once again we are getting ready to walk the Lenten Journey. Ash Wednesday begins on February 18th. How to Lent for Teens and How to Lent with Kids are now up on the website. These are journeys that can be shared by all ages, not just those who fall into the age categories of Teens…

  • Sunday Reflection – February 8, 2026

    Salt & Light Matthew 5 13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 People…

  • Kids Korner: Salt & Light (February 8th)

    Read Matthew 5:13-30 with your family. Have you ever heard someone say, “Be salt and light”? Those are Jesus’ words. He said them to the people listening to Him teach. But what does that mean? Think about salt. Without it, food tastes flat. Our bodies even need salt to work properly. Salt helps things be what…

  • How to do Lent as an adult

    Two of the most loved series on Barefoot Evangelist are How to Lent for Teens and How to Lent with Kids. I created them to be simple, honest, and accessible for real families. They are built around the Pillars of Lent – giving, praying, fasting, and reading scripture – and filled with practical ideas you can actually use.…

  • Sunday Reflection – February 1, 2026

    Blessed are you Matthew 5 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 And he began to speak and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 “Blessed…

  • Kids Korner: We are blessed (February 1st)

    Read Matthew 5:1-12 with your family. The message of Jesus, in fact the message of almost the entire Bible, is that God is with us always and that God wants us to work together to create a world of justice and abundance for all of us. Even as small children, we have a sense of…

  • Does God have a belly button?

    Over the years as a pastor, preacher, and children’s Christian educator, I have fielded questions from just about everyone. Women wanting to understand their place in the early church. Teenagers hungry for a faith that shows up in the streets as much as in the sanctuary. Seniors standing at the edge of life, wondering what…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 25, 2026

    Replay from March 2024 Calling the first named male disciples Matthew 4 12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 “Land of…

  • Kids Korner: Meeting Jesus (January 25th)

    Read Matthew 4:12-23 with your family. Jesus had many people following him from place to place. Women, men and children went to hear Jesus when he spoke, and some of them went with him when he moved to another town or village. In this story we hear about the first four men who were called…

  • Efforts to erase the women of the Bible

    One of my endless frustrations with conservative minded preachers and writers in all Christian denominations, is their almost pathological need to erase or reduce the women of the Bible. Their self-defence of “keeping within the Biblical narrative” suddenly disappears with this form of misogyny. When I was in Germany several years ago, I was at…