Easter Season (1) Fresh Hope

Easter Season (1) Fresh Hope

Even in our wildest, most hopeful moments, we cannot really imagine what God has in store. In our most agonizing, decimating, heartrending…

Easter Sunday: Living the Questions—What Do You Want?

Easter Sunday: Living the Questions—What Do You Want?

When I turned forty, I was busy raising our two kids and serving on the leadership team of a little church in…

Lent: Living the Questions (6) Palm Sunday & Holy Week

Lent: Living the Questions (6) Palm Sunday & Holy Week

This week we watch Jesus, very intentionally, very knowingly, walk right into a confrontation with the power structures that seek to destroy…

Lent: Living the Questions (5) What Hope Is There?

Lent: Living the Questions (5) What Hope Is There?

Sometimes life feels like the branches of a tree in winter: barren, empty, cold, hopeless. You feel powerless. There’s the appearance of…

Lent: Living the Questions (4) Glory

Lent: Living the Questions (4) Glory

Theresa wrote this beautiful piece in response to Sunday’s sermon. With her permission, I offer this slightly shortened version to you as our blog…

Lent: Living the Questions (3) What Am I Willing to Give?

Lent: Living the Questions (3) What Am I Willing to Give?

Jesus and the woman at the well have the longest conversation recorded in the New Testament. Interestingly, Jesus begins the conversation by…

Lent: Living the Questions (2) Will I Cross the Threshold?

Lent: Living the Questions (2) Will I Cross the Threshold?

Distractions come easy these days. We have an infinite amount of options that pull our gaze elsewhere—Amazon Prime, Crave, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok,…

Lent: Living the Questions (1)

Lent: Living the Questions (1)

When I think of Jesus, sitting in the wilderness for 40 days, I wonder what that would have been like for him?…

Living the Questions: Lent

Living the Questions: Lent

Searching the sweet stars, looking up and away from Earth, is a beautiful posture. It captures something of our desire for the…

Under the Sweet Stars of Epiphany (6) Expanding Our Vision—God As Mother

Under the Sweet Stars of Epiphany (6) Expanding Our Vision—God As Mother

Can you identify with longing to feel safe? With wanting to be seen, known, and loved with perfect love? With longing to…

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