Practicing Our Faith: Hospitality
You’ve heard me tell stories before from Father Greg Boyle and the ministry he started decades ago in LA called Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervent...
Practicing Our Faith: Testimony
It is only at one month old that scientists tell us babies begin building a vocabulary, too soon for words but tender with coos and kicks and smiles. They seem ...
Practicing Our Faith: Keeping Sabbath
I’ve told you before that throughout the 20th century, prognosticators of the future and experts in the field of labor increasingly predicted shorter workweek...
Practicing Our Faith: Saying Yes and Saying No
As Baptist pastor Kyle Childress tells the story: “I was ordained over 30 years ago by a small, rural Texas Baptist church who had called me as their new youn...
Practicing Our Faith: Household Economics
We continue in our exploration of Christian practices today, studying, as you remember, the “things Christian people do together over time in response to an...
Practicing Our Faith: Honoring the Body
As the story began, when all creation was poised on the precipice of beginning, there were some angels who grew bothered when they learned that God was planning...
Practicing Our Faith
Yesterday morning, Kelly Auditorium was a swarm of activity. Many of us gathered for Serve Together, a morning spent putting hands and feet to our commitments o...
How to Be Human: Take Heart
You only have to look to this summer’s movie theater box offices for evidence that stories of the sea are timeless. Thousands of years so, if The Odyssey has ...
How to Be Human: Sow
A boy stood in a field with a baseball in one hand and a bat in the other. He said to himself, “I am the greatest player of them all” before putting the bat...
The Great Commission
In 1948, there are two particular things that happened. One, there was a guy named Kent Keith who was born. Two, Mother Teresa turned 38 years old. At the age o...
Pioneer and Perfector
It’s been a rich few weeks with you as we’ve explored the Letter to the Hebrews, learning what it means to be Christian and encouraged in our faith. Last we...
Roll Call!
Yesterday morning, Kelly Auditorium was a swarm of activity. Dozens of us gathered for Serve Together, a morning spent putting hands and feet to our commitments...
The Good Life: Astounded
“And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.” Today’s text is one filled with mystery. We can read the story of th...
Tender Care: Fishing For People
Y’all - I love my wife very much and we often get people asking us how we met, what we love most about each other, what we do for fun, etc. The reality is, mo...
Then and Now: Laughter (The Story of Sarah)
Back in 2009, there was a young man who was beginning to be noticed by the NBA....