

@Thoughts on Advent
An original post on Twitter: Four hours later and we are still singing O Come, O Come Emmanuel. How many verses are in this song, anyway?...


Christmas Trees - Everywhere
It does not take long for evergreen trees to begin appearing just before Halloween. It seems that department stores and malls waste very...


Rich in Faith
Not random acts of kindness. Those are well, too random. These are deliberate acts of living a life rich in faith.


100th Anniversary
I always struggle - struggle deeply - with Veterans Day and church side by side. My grandfather was a veteran of World War II, serving in...


Preparing
Trees prepare us for fall. They subtly, slowly, change their leaf colors from green to yellow to orange to red. Leaves fall to the ground...


Truth
There are so many things that I wanted to say on today, the day of the Reformation. On Halloween - but last Sunday’s Gospel and the...


Listening to God
On Sunday we celebrated St. Stephen's 130th anniversary. I know there were times we weren't sure we would make it! At the start of the...


Happy Anniversary
I wonder...does anyone know what the traditional gift is for a 130th Anniversary? I mean the first year is paper, the fifth wood, the...


Things Unseen
I'm a pretty black and white person when it comes to viewing things. Things are true or false. They are, or they aren't. They work, or...


All Creation
God said, “Let the earth produce every kind of living thing: livestock, crawling things, and wildlife.” And that’s what happened. God...

