Live a Little Recklessly
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking...
Hypocrites? Maybe Not
My friend, Pastor Geoff Sinibaldo, authored a blog post entitled, “Resistance Is Not Futile (No Matter What the Borg Might Say),” and something he said really got me thinking. (You can read the entire...
Crucial Conversations
by Pastor Tim Oslovich Have you ever had to have a high stakes, high emotion conversation with someone when your opinion differed from theirs? How did it go? Most of us...
Consumers or Co-creators with God?
In 1985, Wendell Berry, a farmer/philosopher/poet, wrote an essay with the title, “What Are People For?” He wrote about the huge reduction in the number of farmers in the United States, especially after World...
Can We Disappoint God?
In his book, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters, Jon Acuff suggests that a big part of getting our priorities right is being willing to disappoint the...
Slowing Down for Lent
Pastor Tim Oslovich Lent is sometimes seen as a time of “giving things up.” We give up chocolate or beer or meat or social media. Those are not bad things to do. When we...
Developing Holy Reflexes
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...
Church Health
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...
Two Ethiopian Eunuchs
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 Meaning of the Cross
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...
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