Sep 27, 2012 | church, grace, ministry, sermon
I want to be great. I want to be great at everything I do, and I give myself a hard time for not being brilliantly excellent 100% of the time — as a pastor, a preacher, a mother, a writer. I long to be stellar … and not just to be stellar, but to be known...
Jul 15, 2012 | church, news
The sighting of a “We Are Penn State” bumper sticker recently started me thinking: Every sticker, paw logo, and Nittany Lion golf club cover reflects Penn State’s success in building people’s enthusiasm for branding themselves with this...
Jun 6, 2012 | church, news
“As statistics continue to reveal the Church’s numerical decline, the impulse of congregations and denominations is to resist, to fear, to fight against membership losses. For the sake of survival, we plead: ‘Don’t leave.’ I prefer to...
May 14, 2012 | church, healing, justice, scripture, sermon
Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches; if you abide in me then you will bear much fruit. When you abide in me, you abide in my love and the fruit that you bear is the work of love. Because I am in God and God is in me, because you are in me as I am in...
Apr 18, 2012 | church, news
“The American Church has been neglecting its role as an active storyteller of the American Dream story, as a prophetic minstrel transforming the American ‘Kingdom of God’ — not merely opining from the right or the left on moral concerns, not...
