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  • Welcome to 2026

    You may notice things look a little different around here. This website has been redesigned to create more space — space for questions, for reflection, for learning, and for prayer. Over the coming months, I’ll be adding new writing, resources, and studies drawn from years of teaching, preaching, and living with Scripture. Some of these…

  • Kids Korner: Listen for the message (December 7th)

    Read Matthew 3:1-12 with your family. On the second and third Sundays of Advent we spend time with John the Baptist. In the Gospel of Luke, we are told Jesus and John are cousins, but there is no story telling us that in the Gospel of Matthew. If we go by what Matthew says, they…

  • Sunday Reflection – Advent I, November 30, 2025

    Be ready Matthew 24 36 No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven don’t know, and the Son himself doesn’t know. Only the Father knows. 37  When the Son of Man appears, things will be just as they were when Noah lived. 38 People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day the flood came…

  • Kids Korner: Get ready, God is coming (November 30th)

    Read Matthew 24:36-44 with your family. Today is the first Sunday in Advent. For Christians, this is the first day of our new year. Every Christian year begins with the first Sunday in Advent, and this year we will be growing our faith by through the Gospel of Matthew. In our story for today we…

  • Meeting God in everyday places

    I have so many conversation with folks that start with the theme “I don’t want to be part of the institutional church”. Sometimes it is because they have been hurt by the church, sometimes it is that they feel they don’t fit in or will be judged, and a lot of time it is that…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 16, 2025

    Warnings and preparations Luke 21 5 Some people were talking about the beautiful stones used to build the temple and about the gifts that had been placed in it. Jesus said, 6 “Do you see these stones? The time is coming when not one of them will be left in place. They will all be knocked down.” 7  Some…

  • Kids Korner: Preparation and faith (November 16th)

    Read Luke 21:5-19 with your family. Sometimes it sounds like Jesus is predicting bad things, when in reality the writer of the story is remembering what already happened. When we hear the Gospel stories we have to remember three times in history, and think of what how the story would be heard in each time…

  • Making the ordinary sacred

    Words and experiences get thrown around often without people knowing the meaning. ‘Sacred’ is one of those words. We use it in church to talk about sacraments and all the churchy stuff pastors and priests do, and that seems to make it steps removed from average folks. Even when you look the word up in…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 9, 2025

    Life after death Luke 20 27  The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus 28  and said: Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be thought of as the…

  • Kids Korner: It will be different in Heaven (November 9th)

    Read Luke 20:27-40 with your family. In the Hebrew tradition at the time when Jesus was alive and teaching 2000 years ago, there were three groups of people, three different ways of understanding what they believed. The Essenes who had a lot in common with Jesus’ followers, the Pharisees who were regular folks and challenged…