I have a little quiz for all of you. Now don’t worry, I think you’ll find it very easy. Just tell me what products the following advertising slogans are connected to. For any of you who are not native to this country I give you a pass for this quiz. “Just do it.”—Nike. “Plop, plop, […]

As for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. So, as we’ve entered the official stewardship season of the church, I’ve been thinking […]

“Faith.” That is our theme for this morning, as it is clearly the focus of our Gospel Reading. To be frank, I actually wish Jesus had not used the metaphor of faith and the mustard seed, as it has so frequently been co-opted and misused in modern western Christianity to suggest that if you can’t […]

When I was serving a church in Virginia, a member of my congregation shared with me her struggles with mental illness. She had been diagnosed at the age of 22 with bipolar disorder. She was 35 at the time I met and got to know her. You would never have known if you had met […]