Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Unexpected and Intentional Distraction As digital tablets and smart phones keep us busy and on the go, today’s gospel reminds us of a struggle: when are we to set aside our busy calendars, duties, and to-do lists and simply rest in [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Who Are You? Who do you identify with in the parable? This is part of what makes parables so powerful. Some days we read the story through the eyes of the priest or the Levite. Some days we feel like the [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Sent with the Seventy Close your eyes and picture Jesus and his followers together. Most likely people either picture Jesus sitting around with the twelve disciples or standing in the midst of thousands preaching and teaching. Yet in today’s gospel Jesus [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Asking Everything What does it mean to be a disciple? Today’s texts answer this question in various ways. Elisha was given the burdensome mantle of Elijah. Up until this point he’d simply been a student of the great prophet. Then, without [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Proclaiming How Much Jesus Has Done We feel powerless when life’s storms rage about us. Despite our best efforts, we cannot navigate those dangers without the hand of God to guide and free us. In the gospel, the man with demons [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Drawn into Relationship, Guided into Truth The doctrine of the Trinity invites us to consider how a God constituted by relationship—the Father with the Son, the Son with the Spirit, the Spirit with the Father—draws us into that relationship with God [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! What Does This Mean? “What does this mean?” the devout ask (Acts 2:12). For those gathered in that house, the event meant the birth of sudden, surprising, unmerited new life. Filled with the Holy Spirit, they burst from the house with a [...]

6th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Our Home-making God Into the midst of our anxiety and alarm we are offered a vision of a glorious future filled with promise—the promise that God will make a home with us. This is a promise of an ultimate future home—a New [...]

5th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! God’s Beautifully Messy Community From abandonment to homecoming and from a narrow scope to a broader vision of God’s realm, these are the promises proclaimed. The early church and our faith communities are called to engage this reality. A community of Jewish [...]

4th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! The Searching Sheep Messages and information today are texted, tweeted, broadcast, e-mailed, phoned, lectured, announced, packaged, and repackaged. The means and avenues for communication are many. Yet when it comes to the person known as Jesus of Nazareth we are often left [...]

3rd Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Do You Love Me? Follow Me When we encounter Jesus, we are changed and will never be the same. Jesus can be revealed in a blinding light on the road, in an abundance of fish, in breakfast on the beach. God uses [...]

2nd Sunday of Easter Join us ~ We Make a Place for Everyone! Can I Get a Witness? The texts for today explore what it means to be a witness: the power of seeing and experiencing the resurrection firsthand. For those of us who weren’t there in person to witness Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, [...]