This week, for Spring Break, we travelled to my in-laws’ house. For the past several years I’ve watched the progress of an old super-market being converted into a new church building and remarked on it’s apparently completion to my mother-in-law, “It looks like their building is done.” She nodded to be and said, “Oh yes,…
Category: Pastoring
Moses, Texas, and Social Outrage
Yesterday, I saw a post on Facebook in the form of a blog entry which claims Texas has voted to list Moses among the Founding Fathers in their new educational standards. I have learned to be skeptical of sensational blog posts, especially if I’m moved to immediate outrage by it’s headline, so I went looking…
Rise Up
This is an edited manuscript for my Easter Sunday sermon – April 5, 2015. It’s launched from Acts 10:34-43 but is set up much different than my typical preaching. Most of the themes from Peter’s message to Cornelius are present, but I don’t unpack them as I normally do. As it’s not my typical way…
Risen Indeed
He is risen. This is the traditional greeting for Christians on Easter 1 for centuries. It’s the message of hope for the Christian faith. Jesus, God in the Flesh, died but is risen. The doors of death have been kicked open from the inside, sin has been conquered, and the hope of the New Creation…
Good Friday
I’m battling an illness so I don’t have much to say, but this Good Friday I thought I’d share an image of a cross. I am amazed at how Christians have coopted this horrific instrument of destruction into a symbol of hope 1. On Good Friday God in the Flesh yielded his life up for…
Ready for Resurrection
Holy Week is upon us and Lent is coming to an end. I don’t want to say that Lent has been fun 1, but this year I’ve found it to be vibrant. Central has been alive this Lenten season, displaying a life and energy which I knew had been waiting for release. In many ways,…
