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  • Sunday Reflection – January 18, 2026

    Replay from March 2024 The Messiah has come John 1 In the beginning was the one    who is called the Word.The Word was with God    and was truly God.2 From the very beginning    the Word was with God. 3 And with this Word,    God created all things.Nothing was made    without the Word.Everything that was created4     received its life from him,and his life gave light    to…

  • Kids Korner: Meeting Jesus (January 18th)

    Read John 1:1-42 with your family. This is a very long passage, but it tells the story of folks meeting Jesus from the view of the Gospel of John. Each Gospel has a slightly different telling of the story of Jesus, and the Gospel of John lets everyone know that Jesus is the Messiah right…

  • Being like the earliest Christians

    I’ve been part of a few conversations lately about what the church looked like in the very beginning. Now, as an historian these are not unusual conversations to be part of, I am often talking about what the Christian community looked like at various times in history. What is unusual is who are having these…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 11, 2026

    John baptizes Jesus Matthew 3 13 Jesus left Galilee and went to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. 14 But John kept objecting and said, “I ought to be baptized by you. Why have you come to me?” 15 Jesus answered, “For now this is how it should be, because we must do all God wants us to…

  • Kids Korner: The Baptism of Jesus (January 11th)

    Read Matthew 3:13-17 with your family. Every time we talk about Jesus we talk about how important he was, how he taught us so many thing, and how he asked us to be good to other people. We always think of Jesus being in charge. But in this story, we see jesus as he probably…

  • The childhood of our Christian Year

    We have just come through Advent and Christmas, the business, the excitement, the work… and if you are Responsible for making the season happen, you know it is a lot of work. and now we have arrived in Epiphany. Epiphany in the church is first a day of recognizing the arrival of the Magi bringing…

  • Sunday Reflection – Epiphany, January 4, 2026

    The visit of the magi Matthew 2 When Jesus was born in the village of Bethlehem in Judea, Herod was king. During this time some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and said, “Where is the child born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship…

  • Kids Korner: The arrival of the Magi – Epiphany Sunday (January 4th)

    Read Matthew 2:1-12 with your family. Did you know there is absolutely nothing in the Bible about the names of the Magi, or how many of them arrived in Bethlehem, or even if they were only men? Nothing. The story of the Arrival of the Magi (short for “magician” in Latin, because they knew about…

  • 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…