Pride is a funny word. It can mean both to have confidence in yourself and your work or contributions to the world (productive or creative or compassionate), but it can also mean to have a deadly (from the point of view of sinfulness) sense of your own power and worth.
In A God Story In the Gospel of John there’s a person that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the Christian Testament, a Jewish man, an authority among the people, named Nicodemus. Nicodemus is not a towering figure of Biblical legend….
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On The Verge It’s March (or nearly, I’m writing this in February). You know March, it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. It’s the time that flower buds poke through the snow and we start…
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February, for being the shortest month, sure asks us to jam a lot of bits in. It’s Black History Month, it’s the month in which Lent begins this year, and it’s the month we’ll wrap up our Philosophy and Theology…
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Look, I’ve eaten my fair share of Christmas cookies this year already, and I’m sure come New Year’s Eve my pants may feel a bit snugger than usual. When I look around at the unfinished (or unstarted) projects of 2020,…
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There is a song called “Mary Did You Know?” The lyrics were penned in 1984 by Mark Lowry. In 1991 Buddy Greene put it to music and signer Michael English recorded it that same year. Since then, it’s appeared on…
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In September we had a shared Deliberative Dialogue with the good people at Calvary Lutheran Church and their pastor, Rev. Daryl Emowrey. Together on Zoom we talked about the very real political divide in our nation that bleeds into our…
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We met via Zoom after worship on August 23rd to have a Town Hall meeting to discuss the continued suspension of inperson worship and the results of our COVID-19 survey. It was a time not for telling everyone “this is…
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Jim Harris recently shared with me and some other of our church members a bit of history on our stained glass windows. He began with an invitation to peek at some of our stained glass windows, one of which has…
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Let’s Talk About Race It’s all you hear about these days, isn’t it? Racism, #BlackLivesMatter, police reform, Breonna, George . . . And there’s the counternarrative. “All Lives Matter! It’s just a few bad apples. What about Black on Black…
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