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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the questions I asked the congregation this week was to look for the signs or the measures of God’s work around you each day. In the passage for this week, John asks Jesus about whether he is really the one that they were […]
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 […]
There were several things I was hearing in this week’s passage. I heard one message that will be what I’ll be sharing on in worship on Sunday about the new that Jesus brings into life. But I heard another one personally this week about watching […]
I took a picture a few months ago of the results of this window – a pretty ugly scar on my hand. I wish there was a great story behind it but it just came out of me trying to push open a stick window […]
As I read through the passage for this week each day, one word just kept sticking out to me. Today. There’s obviously so much in the passage about what Jesus did, what he said, the response of the crowd, but that one word just kept […]
Starting into a new year, I am shifting from what I did last year (read through the Bible in a year) to a much slower walk through parts of the Bible. In our church, we’re calling it “Savoring the Word.” So, I’ll probably only be […]
