But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,my glory, and the one who lifts up my head I am one who finds myself looking down a lot. Sometimes it is because I’m looking at my phone or because I’m watching where I am walking. […]
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My Emmaus Road
I know this is a similar picture to what I posted the other day but something about this path just really continues to speak to me. I had the Sunday off today (Yahoo!!!! – grateful for a wonderful associate pastor!) and our family went out […]
Savoring the Word 17 – Luke 24:13ff – Emmaus
Yesterday I heard from two friends of mine who are wrestling with where they are in life. Paths that once seemed so very clear did not feel so much at least yesterday. If they (and I and we) are honest with ourselves, that’s probably more […]
Savoring the Word 14 – Luke 19:28-40 – Leaves
A few nights ago I was leaving the church to head home. It had been a stormy early evening and the storms had just passed through and the sun was starting to peek out. It was creating my favorite type of evening light – there’s […]
Savoring the Word 13 -Luke 18:31-19:10 – Longing
This is my favorite statue in one of our local cemetaries. It reminds me of my favorite novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany (if you have read the book and notice the hands here, you’ll understand). Anyway, I have photographed this statue from a variety […]
Savoring the Word 12 – Luke 16:19-31 – Seeing but Not Seeing
Ah – one of the most challenging parables that Jesus tells – the story of the rich man and Lazarus. (Side note – this is not the same Lazarus as in the raising-from-the-dead story, but its still interesting that this is the only parable where […]
Savoring the Word 11 – Luke 15 – Stillness Blessedly Interrupted
The other morning, my day started out like many of my others. When I got to the church, I took some time as I began my morning to pray. It was a chilly morning and so I lit my fireplace and sat down in front […]
Savoring the Word 10 – Luke 13:1-9 – Patience
Today was a day that I just needed a bit of fresh air. I didn’t have any lunch appointments today so I just went for a quick walk over the lunch hour on a stunningly beautiful March afternoon. As I walked and prayed, I was […]
Savoring the Word 09 – Luke 10:25-42 – Distractions
Last week was one of those weeks – pulled in lots of different directions and many distractions that were all around. It was a perfect week to be preaching about distractions – the distracted disciples in the Good Samaritan parable and then the distractions that […]
Savoring the Word 08 – Luke 9:28-43 – Unreal
This is, of course, a real picture. But there’s a lot that is “unreal” about it. It was from a hike last fall but there’s a lot of extreme photoshopping that I did to this picture. Why? Not because I think it looks good or […]
Savoring the Word 07 – Luke 7:36-50 – Building Up not Breaking Down
As I have been going over this passage many times this week both for my own personal work as well as for the sermon on Sunday, I was originally thinking about an underlying message of brokenness – the brokenness of the woman who anointed Jesus […]
Savoring the Word 05 – Luke 7:1-17 – Love
A few days ago, we had Chinese food for dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year and we of course had the fortune cookies afterwards. We had the usual things you’d expect to read in a fortune cookie and then we had this one. This was […]
