I am working on Sunday’s exploration of the parable of the sower … I wondered how Jesus would interact with our culture and rewrote the parable for a twitter-world. I wonder what you would add or change? A lover decided to spread her message of hope. She invited people into creating a community of …
In the book “The naked Anabaptist” the author writes, “The Christendom era has left the body of Christ with toxins in its bloodstream-practices, instincts, commitments, structures, attitudes, biases, compromises, and reactions that damage our health and disfigure our witness. We need to purge these toxins from our system.” I know the toxins he refers to …
I love it when I see children running and jumping into someone’s arms. I appreciate it the most when it is my children, Tayla and Liam, jumping into my arms. It is beautiful to see how that moment captures a mixture of excitement, joy and trust. Jumping into someone’s arms takes a fair amount of …
This is a re-post of an article I wrote a few years ago – I am still struggling with this. This week a few people in our community started to memorize Jesus’ sermon found in Matthew 5-7. We started with the first twelve verses. As an addition to my memorizing I also read through Carter’s …