Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 It’s an old story, this one, and one with roots not in malice, but rather, youth and ignorance. It is when I first began to discern what mattered and what didn’t in ministry. I was a young pastor serving a small, rural church. The people there were kind and they were …
John 6: 56-69 “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life…” I almost cannot read those words without singing them. For you see, as long as I can remember I’ve been part of a community of God’s people among whom these words are sung just before the Gospel is read every …
John 6:51-58 One could say it was a children’s sermon gone wrong. A few Sundays ago as we were talking about Jesus feeding the 5000 we did an ‘experiment.’ I had the end of a loaf of sourdough bread left from baking on Friday and we decided to pass this piece of bread among those gathered for worship …
John 6:35, 41-51 In the avalanche of news about yet another mass shooting in our country — this one in a Sikh Temple south of Milwaukee — I find my mind and heart automatically travel back. For you see, it happened here in my community not that long ago. A heavily armed gunman entered a …
John 6:35, 41-51 I have been baking bread for as long as I can remember. It was a regular occurrence at the home I grew up in: the aroma of fresh baked bread. It was, I’m told, an even more regular happening in the home my mother grew up in back in the time when bread …