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10 mins read|06/28/16The authority God gives to men—to you and I as baptized believers in Christ—is to forgive sins, to free them from guilt, to free them from the power of sin.
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7 mins read|06/24/16The dying words of Jesus were not, “Make it worth it,” but “It is finished.”
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6 mins read|06/13/16Have you ever played hide and seek with a 2-year-old? News flash: They’re terrible at it.
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8 mins read|06/03/16Can God forgive friends who abandoned Him in His hour of greatest need?
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12 mins read|05/24/16When Simon the Pharisee got his holier-than-thou panties in a wad over what this woman was doing, Jesus insulted him by pointing out how much a better host this prostitute was than he was.
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8 mins read|05/19/16The chief verb of the liturgy is the gift of God’s forgiveness for the sake of Jesus Christ.
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9 mins read|04/22/16This I know: hate sucks you dry. It’s the worst high-maintenance companion ever. Always demanding more of your time, more of your energy, more of your emotion.
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6 mins read|04/19/16Burdened within and without, we cross the threshold into church. We don't leave behind our earthiness, our tragedies, our white-knuckled grip on the last vestige of dignity in our sad lives.
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9 mins read|04/11/16Years ago a young woman approached her pastor with a request. It wasn’t a strange request. She simply asked if he would perform her wedding ceremony.
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12 mins read|03/31/16If you’ve been in church long enough, you might have seen the worst of someone’s unrepentant sin get them kicked out, cast out, excommunicated or “handed over to Satan so their flesh might die and their soul might live.”
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9 mins read|03/22/16The first person who attempted to stop people from talking about Jesus was not a tyrant, a secular government, or a bully religious mob.
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16 mins read|03/03/16Your sins do not exist because He who called heaven and earth into existence, has called your sins out of existence. He who made everything from nothing unmakes your sins into nothing.
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