Archive for September 2025

I have this sort of occupational hazard, I suppose, where I like to make lists. If I get bored at a meeting – and I’m so grateful that you as a congregation don’t put a lot of meetings on my to-do list, I’m eternally grateful for that. In my past, the churches that I served, way too many meetings. Sometimes when I would get…

So, what does the Lord require of us? Well, in this congregation, you can answer that. All you have to do is look at the banners, right? What does the Lord require of us? That’s Micah 6:8. Seek justice, love kindness, walk humbly with our God. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with our God…

Lost and found. Lost, and found. This man welcomes sinners and eats with them. Anthropologists will tell you that sitting down at table and breaking bread with someone is the second most physically intimate thing we can do with another person or persons. I want to let that sink in for a second. Sitting down at table…

Bending in the wind. When I was a kid – this is the truth – I loved to climb trees. I was good at it. I was young, I was strong, I was athletic. I loved to climb trees. We lived on Fifth Street in Marysville starting when I was a fourth grader through my high school graduation.…