In Lent, there is an opportunity to dust off the soul, declutter the spirit. There is dignity in doing the spring cleaning of our very being. We live in a society...

Twice in seven verses the psalmist’s plea to God is, “Wash me.” Isn’t this, indeed, what forgiveness feels like? I think about a long, warm shower after a run in the...

God is God, and we are not. God makes promises, and we break them. We do things that break God’s trust. Yet God keeps coming back to us. God sees us...

John 3:16 was the first Bible verse that I ever memorized. I remember as a child in Sunday school reciting those words over and over, “For God so loved the world...

I once took a group of fourth- and fifth-graders to an observatory to look at stars and learn about constellations. We talked about how there is so much we can learn...

Derik fled his home country of Honduras because of violence. He was kidnapped as he traveled through the desert, and he escaped only to find himself lost and alone for ten...

One of my all-time favorite camp songs is “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love.” When I think about what faith means to me, I think of those lyrics. Working...

My current congregation’s mission statement is simple: Loving God. Serving Others. Changing Lives. This statement is written on the wall above the doors so that we can’t help but see those...

The Israelites in their lack of faithfulness and their distrust of God spoke out against God, and God got tired of it. There are consequences to any action. In the case...

We are three weeks into the season of Lent, three weeks deeper into following Jesus into the wilderness. The deeper we get into the wilderness and the closer we get to...