Dirk Willems is not a name that most people in the twenty-first century know. Dirk was an Anabaptist who lived in the Netherlands in the 1500s. Anabaptists were part of what is called the...

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Church Health Assessment Tool survey. I know that it was a lot of questions (70!) plus an open-ended question at the end. I am very grateful...

When I was preparing my sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (April 29), I was reading about the Ethiopian eunuch whom Philip met on the Gaza Road. You might remember that story. The...

The earliest Easter gospel is not in one of the four Gospels. It is in another reading that we sometimes hear on Easter: 1 Corinthians 15:13-4: “For I handed on to you as of...

Did you have pancakes on the Tuesday before Lent started? Did anyone you know go to a traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake supper? No? Me neither. Well, I didn’t go, but I do know one...

How do you get better at something? At anything? Yes, the answer is above: practice. This is as true of relationships as it is of engaging in sports, playing music or doing calculus. Practice...

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the story of Elijah meeting God in 1 Kings 19. Elijah meets God after his incredible victory over the prophets of Baal and his flight...