I remember that one of my favorite things as a child was getting the Highlights Magazine in the mail. This was almost as exciting for me as ordering books from…
Our scripture lesson today reminds me of John Wesley’s Three Simple Rules. Rule #1: Do No Harm. Rule #2: Do Good. Rule #3: Stay in love with God. These three…
Have you ever cursed someone? Paul writes, “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.” I imagine if we took an anonymous poll, a decent number of us…
In our scripture lesson today, Paul gives us his ”Ten Commandments of Christian Community”: Love must be sincere—or as Eugene Peterson put it in his Message translation, “Love from the…
What is your favorite thing about Christmas? In an effort to get better at technology, this week I used an app called Poll Everywhere to ask 25 people from our…
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.” What a powerful statement! If there’s one thing I hope people can say about us here…
Last week my husband Phil and I were on vacation up in New England. On our first full day, we stopped in the afternoon for ice cream at Friendly’s. There…
There were two groups of Christians in the early church, who came at things from very different perspectives. The first “on-ramp” to the Christian way was by being Jewish. The…
The American poet Maya Angelou wrote, “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles three things: a rainy day, lost…