Thankfully, mercifully, at long last – after much painful labor, after heartbreaking loss and hardship, all signs finally point toward a happy ending. Or at least a next chapter that’s not quite so bad. To eke out a meager existence, they battled unfair circumstance and, on the frontlines of combat, forged a camaraderie of deep,Continue reading “Places in the Heart”
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For the Love of God
The apostle Paul was a prolific letter-writer. But he doesn’t merely scribble informal notes to friends and family in faraway places. Paul’s letters – at least the ones that ended up in the Bible’s New Testament – are situational documents that speak to problems he thinks need prompt attention in a particular community of believers.Continue reading “For the Love of God”
A Voter’s Guide
Uncomfortable as it often is, naming the elephant in the room can be a risk both faithful and fruitful. I thus climb out on the limb of preaching to bring you a Word about Tuesday’s election – a voter’s guide, if you will. Please know that I share from the heart of a pastor notContinue reading “A Voter’s Guide”
Love Is
Some of the most elegant prose in all of literature provides our Scripture lesson this morning: 1 Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul’s gripping testimony to the power of love. The passage places love and all its nuance at the center of life for a faith community of ever-maturing disciples. Love is the absolutely indispensable qualityContinue reading “Love Is”