Noticing God in the Unexpected
Over the past two weeks, I have been solo-parenting our fur babies while my wife, Karen, is helping her mother recover from surgery. In our normal rhythms...
Amy’s Reflections from Sabbatical
First on Fifth family, Whew!!! I had no idea how FAST six weeks felt until it was time to come back....
Gifts of our Prayer Partner Ministry
Raise your hand if you love receiving a gift (my hand is raised!) Gifts are ways for others to express their love and appreciation to someone they value. We giv...
Reflections on Passport Kids Camp 2026
What does a lamp named “Lampy,” a Dr. Suess-themed variety show, reading the bible, creative movements, church music, silly dad jokes, creating new friendsh...
Celebrating Freedom & Striving for Liberty and Justice for All
This Sunday, June 28, we invite you to join us for a special *potluck* brunch in Kelly Auditorium at 9:45 as we gather around the table to celebrate community, ...
Something Always Happens at Easter!
Dear Beloved Community, As Annabelle wisely told me, “something always happens at Easter!” My experience tells me that the “something” has the power to ...
Love Leads to the Light
Maundy Thursday by Malcolm Guite Here is the source of every sacrament,The all-transforming presence of the Lord,Replenishing our every elementRemaking us in hi...
Holy Week
We are about to enter a week that the Christian church has designated as Holy Week. That designation does not imply that other weeks are not holy.&n...
Holding Space on the Journey
And so we’ve begun. Ready or not we are on the journey to the cross. The winding road of the Lenten journey stretches out ahead of us into the wilderness. Wha...
Ash Wednesday: Call a Solemn Assembly
Ash Wednesday“Call a solemn assembly…”Joel 2:15 When Joel issued the call for a “solemn assembly”, he did not issue that call to a bunch of Baptists! ...
High and Holy Moments
“It was amazing!” “There were so many people!” “There was so much food!” “I hope we do this again every year!” My ears were fi...
Room at the Table
“There is room for us all And no gift is too small There is room at the table for everyone There’s enough if we share Come on pull up a chair There is r...
Risen and Power-Full Indeed!
Dear Beloved Community, With each passing year of our living, one truth never fades – God is always, always at work making all things new, surprising us again...
What “Clearing Out” is For
Dear Beloved Community, This Lenten season of “clearing out” has been clarifying, hasn’t it? We’ve felt it in our church house, as the first floor has, ...
A Week Called Holy
I doubt that those first disciples would have used the word “holy” to describe the final week of Jesus’ earthly life. In seven brief days the disciples ex...
A Season of Change
Lent is a season of change, a season of transition. Falling during the seasonal transition from winter to spring, Lent reminds us that new life is near. How wil...
All Things New
Dear Beloved Community, Several days have since passed, but the deep and abiding love I experienced alongside you this Holy Week and Easter will not soon abate....
Collecting Our Tears
In author Sarah Bessey’s new book, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith, she speaks of the wilderness of lament. Far too often, she...
Bearing the Beams of Love
I’ve gotten into the habit of wearing a rough-hewn wooden cross every day during Lent. The cross necklace was a gift from my former church, Highland Baptis...
Facing Our Finitude
I admit, I had to laugh. It’s precisely not the moment to laugh, this somber ritual in worship where the ministers smudge ashes on the brows of their congr...