When my oldest nephew was born, Bill and I rushed over to the hospital to meet the tiny little addition to the family and to visit my brother and Jen, who were both obviously exhausted. As I held my sleeping nephew, my brother said to me that obviously I inherited all the faith in the … [Read more…]
During the Depression, there was widespread hunger, lack of employment, and homelessness. My Great Uncle and my Grandmother often told me that they knew of people who suffered greatly in town but being children of farmers they suffered very little and barely noticed the Depression. But what my grandmother remembered the most about that time … [Read more…]
Promise and hope is what the Lenten season is to lead us to with the Easter morning. We are promised paradise and we are given hope in the new life. What we experience here isn’t the only life that is offered to us. Through coming to understand the depth of the love Christ experienced for … [Read more…]
Today we heard about a time in the history of the Kingdom of Judah where market values on property have just bottomed out. Not too different than what happened in the housing market crisis here in the United States in 2008 one that many states have not yet fully recovered from. Bill and I have … [Read more…]
When we are in those stages of life when fear has taken grip of our hearts, we seem to have more questions. We might want to ask: Where is God? Has God left me? Has God abandoned my community to suffer? When we are afraid we sometimes become inconsolable. For the past couple of months, … [Read more…]
Last week we talked about having the courage to live into the word of God, the courage to do God’s work in our world. This week we continue to consider what God asks of all of us as people of faith. Now, I love watching the Olympics because it gives all people in our country … [Read more…]
