Home (Lent #37)

Talk of church often focuses on a physical place, a time or activity. This is church as a destination or as something we do. But, the most compelling understanding of church for me is church as a people. Not something we do, but something we are. (Isn’t this the position of Rethink Church whose crazy […]

Earthly (Lent #16)

Have you moved recently? Packed all your earthly possessions into a moving truck and driven across town/state/country? I have several times in the past few years. Even when we had a moving company haul our stuff from point A to point B, it wasn’t much fun. Purging and packing and hauling and sorting. Spending hours trying to find […]

World (Lent #6)

I had an opportunity a couple of years ago to participate in a conversation with Sue Nilson Kibbey. One of the things she shared was that pastors really have one sermon; one message that finds its way into whatever they preach. She asked, “What’s your one sermon?” I could easily pick it out for others, […]