Dear Members and Friends, God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, […]
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” -Genesis 28:16 (Preached on Sunday, July 23, 2017) […]
Listening is an act of surrender. -Brian Eno, 20th century But isn’t listening a natural act? Isn’t that what my two ears are for and something I do all the time […]
Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted! Anyone with ears […]
Don’t judge each day by the harvest your reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century Again this week I participated in a Memorial Celebration of […]
Patience and Gentleness is Power. -Leigh Hunt, 19th century This past week we celebrated the life of Elizabeth “Betty” Metcalf. Betty and her husband George joined Christ Congregational Church in November […]
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. -Genesis 22:8 (Preached on Sunday, July 9, 2017) In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, there is a cardiopulmonary surgeon who is a […]
Abraham said, “Son, God will see to it that there’s a sheep for the burnt offering.” And they kept on walking together. -Genesis 22:8 (Preached on Sunday, July 2, 2017) […]
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and […]
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation. -Genesis 2:3 (Preached on Sunday, June […]