Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
Matthew 6:25-34 (The Cotton Patch Gospel): 25. “Therefore, let me tell you all something: Don’t worry about making a living—what you’ll eat, what you’ll drink, what you’ll wear. Isn’t the life of a man more important than what he eats? Think for a moment about the birds of the sky. They don’t plant. They don’t…
"Headcheese"_Schaller & Waller_Creative Commons It seems (to me) that people are more like headcheese: when you cut into them to see what's at the core, you can't separate the mind from the heart, the heart from the body, the body from the spirit. When we absorb & process, it's with all of who we are…
Photo Credit: lionlamb-bowmanville.blogspot.com Church was cancelled today. Our congregation was evicted from its current space as of January 01, 2014. We cleaned, packed up our stuff, and moved everything this week to its new space; but with the holidays and all, we took a week off to be with family and friends. It's a Lutheran…
We've all heard the story out of John 4:… 3 Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4 This time he had to go through Samaria, 5 and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph. 6-8 The well that Jacob had dug was…
As I stood with my congregation this morning, it was with the uneasy frustration of "nothingness" once again. Why the jadedness, I cannot say for sure at this point, but each time I rise to sing, I feel guilty for praising God with my lips, but having my heart far from Him. Yet today… even…
As I enter into my final week here in Olongapo City, I am pondering the many, many ways people come to Christ. It has awed me, encouraged me, and humbled me. Sometimes I think my personal theology and knowledge of the Bible says to the other: "You can't have come to Christ THAT way. It's…
Jesus explains the Parable of the Sower pretty clearly. It is not my intention to disrupt his explanation or go against it. In fact, I think the question I have fits nicely into Christ's story and into His entire life overall. The Sower Story tells of a farmer who spreads the seed of the Gospel.…
