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  • Why ‘barefoot’ and ‘evangelist’?

    I often get questions about why I chose the title Barefoot Evangelist for my website. The questions are mostly about the ‘evangelist’ part, if we are being honest. The ‘barefoot’ is pretty straight forward. I prefer preaching in my bare feet, and once overheard a person in a church I preached at referring to me…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 28, 2025

    Have pity on me Luke 16 19 There was once a rich man who wore expensive clothes and every day ate the best food. 20 But a poor beggar named Lazarus was brought to the gate of the rich man’s house. 21 He was happy just to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. His body was…

  • Kids Korner: Tell my siblings to be good (September 28th)

    Read Luke 16:19-31 with your family. Some stories are hard to understand, but not this one. When Jesus told stories he often exaggerated the setting and people to make it entertaining before he showed them the point. In this one Jesus makes the rich man richer than anyone could imagine, and Lazarus with nothing. So…

  • Jesus and transgender folks

    There have been some very disturbing things coming out of various countries around the world aimed at transgender folks. They have always been a vulnerable community, and by all indications it is getting worse. As an historian I am disturbed by how much our current century is paralleling the 20th century. In the 1920’s there…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 21, 2025

    God or Money Luke 16 Jesus said to his disciples: A rich man once had a manager to take care of his business. But he was told that his manager was wasting money. 2 So the rich man called him in and said, “What is this I hear about you? Tell me what you have done! You…

  • Kids Korner: Chose between God or Money (September 21st)

    Read Luke 16:1-13 with your family. Sometimes stories we read in the Bible can be really confusing. This is the first clue that something was happening in the days of Jesus and the writers of the Bible that we do not understand in our modern world, so we have to dig deeper to figure out…

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  • How can we ‘pray without ceasing’?

    The first time I remember hearing the injunction to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), I thought it was the strangest thing ever. How can you do that? We have lives that need living, after all. Admittedly I was a teenager at the time, and my imagination was still developing. We do tend to take…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 14, 2025

    (There seems to be a problem with this site and YouTube videos. If by the time you are viewing this the problem has continued, you can access the reflection video at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6quhgUShFlI) Lost Things Luke 15 Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus. 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of…

  • Kids Korner: Lost Things (September 14th)

    Read Luke 15:1-10 with your family. We have had a lot of hard and heavy things to talk about in the stories these past few weeks. This week, however, we have a nicer story. Something that reminds us how much God loves us. This week we are reading the stories of the lost sheep and…