No More Saber-Tooth?!?!

No More Saber-Tooth?!?!

It wasn’t until Monday morning that I realized how big a day last Sunday was for our church.  Two Sundays ago, on August 16, we commissioned our first church plant and had a spectacular celebratory picnic, highlighted by a dunk tank, bounce house,…

Reflection for Good Friday

Reflection for Good Friday

from Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir, p. 25 “What hard travail God does in death! He strives in sleep, in our despair, And all flesh shudders underneath The nightmare of His sepulcher. The earth shakes, grinding its deep stone; All…

Reflection for Maundy Thursday

Reflection for Maundy Thursday

Jesus Getting Down and Dirty by William Willimon (Originally Published on March 8, 2013 at https://willwillimon.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/jesus-getting-down-and-dirty-lent-devotions/) Feet are literally the lowest, earthiest part of the body. “To put under the feet” was a humiliating gesture of the victor over the…

Reflection for Wednesday of Holy Week

Reflection for Wednesday of Holy Week

“Small Prayer in a Hard Wind” by Christian Wiman “As through a long-abandoned half-standing house only someone lost could find, which, with its paneless windows and sagging crossbeams, its hundred crevices in which a hundred creatures hoard and nest, seems…

Reflection for Monday of Holy Week

Reflection for Monday of Holy Week

From Dorothy Sayers, “Strong Meat” “In contending with the problem of evil it is useless to try to escape either from the bad past or into the good past. The only way to deal with the past is to accept…

Lenten Reflection

Lenten Reflection

by Jennifer Lind Unlike many chocolate-forsaken Lenten seasons of my childhood, this year I’ve been meditating on the responses of Jesus during his time in the wilderness as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11. Christ’s triple refutation of the devil during his…