2013 Holy Week – Tuesday

This is part 2 of 5 in the collection Holy Week Easter 2013

As Easter approaches, can we reflect on the choices we’ve made; and can we say that we’ve made them in the same spirit as did the Christ?

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Palm Sunday 2013 – Heady Times and Temptation

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Why didn’t Jesus follow up after the whole “palm branches and donkey” thing and start a rebellion? A progressive Christian Palm Sunday reflection.

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Can We…

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This is part 1 of 1 in the collection a Statement of Affirmation

Can we … celebrate our similarities … accept our differences …looking instead to what our unique experiences reveal to us about God?

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Blessed With Peace

Hard as it may be to believe, the world is, by and large, more “at peace” now than it’s ever been in its history.

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Anyone Got an Extra Coat?

Do we want short-term “joy” of material gain, or the long-term Joy of living our agapé relationship with God?

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Guide to Peace

Each day, in each choice we make, may we move ourselves, and the world around us, just a little closer to the light of peace.

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ALL Together Now

See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together; a great company, they shall return here.

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The Words of My Mouth

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O LORD – Psalm 19:14 This excerpt is often used by worship leaders at the beginning of a sermon. I’m more likely to use it privately

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Saving Our Lives … and the World

Does our faith require us to walk away from our lives, hop a plane to an impoverished nation, and start digging wells and building hospitals? Sometimes

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A Time to Sing

Some are uncomfortable with the explicit sexual innuendo in the Song of Solomon, but is there a more stirring avowal anywhere of the power of our relationship with Theos?

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