Pentecost Sunday 07.15.18 (Sometimes) you simply can’t make this stuff up, when life shares the very same shadows and light as the writings of the prophets and scripture.

Pentecost Sunday 07.01.18 (Last) week we gathered in Houston with 31,000 youth and adults for five days of celebration, learning, and work. You will hear the stories of our youth on Sunday, August 5th. While there was a spirit of WOW in the air, there was an underlying reality that adult leaders and pastors talked

Pentecost Sunday 06.24.18 (The) Jesus Movement was in some trouble. While Jesus had healed many people, and had taught of the Kingdom of God using simple stories as metaphor, all in all, he received mixed reviews.        

Pentecost Sunday 06.17.18

Pentecost Sunday 06.10.18 (Last) summer I attended a family reunion in New Hampshire. Among those in attendance where a whole troop of children 6 to 9 years old. They are all cousins, and don’t have many opportunities to be together over a long weekend. When they weren’t playing games in the lake’s shallow water, they

Children’s sermon (flame) (Have) you ever tried to explain something to a friend, or stranger, and the more you talked, the worse the example’s image became? Trying to do that is about as bad as playing charades with words! It’s like….this. Or it’s like that but it isn’t this or that. It’s different. Well, I

Children’s sermon (gift) (It sounds) like the title of a high school valedictorian’s graduation speech. Choose life. Well, duh. That makes sense at the end of high school. But this isn’t high school. Choose life. I guess that you could very easily sit back on your laurels, and say “I’ve chosen life” but what you