I rememberwhen you brushed my hair into lopsided pigtailswhen you let me “work” at your office to earn quarterswhen you came to every basketball game to watch me take statswhen you took me on spring break parent-child adventureswhen you sent me goofy pictures and motivational quotes, knowing I was homesick at collegewhen you played with… Read More
Friday prayer: companions for the journey
God who does not want us to be alone, my spouse and I celebrate seventeen years of marriage this week. It isn’t always easy, but I’m grateful to have a true partner for the journey. It is in this spirit that I thank you for all people who are good companions: significant others, relatives by… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Math Sunday
Greetings, preachers! It’s Math Sunday, better known as Trinity Sunday for those who follow the liturgical calendar. The Sunday when somehow one and three are equal. Are you tackling the Trinity? Or doing something else entirely? Revised Common Lectionary post with discussion is on our blog, if you need a kick-start. In the U.S., it… Read More
Saturday Prayer: For Trinity Saturday
Holy, holy, holy God, Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, Let us not commit (too much) heresy tomorrow as we try to explain your inexplicable three-in-oneness: the eternal communion of the Godhead, the perichoresis of the Divine life, the baffling reality that is You, our one God, as Trinity. As we stumble through sermons and liturgy bless our… Read More
RCL: The Joys of Trinity Sunday
Every year when Trinity Sunday comes around, I find myself thinking about the first children’s sermon I ever gave. It was nearly 30 years ago when I was a field ed student during my first year of seminary. Long before I knew the impossibilities of theological math, I thought I had the perfect object lesson.… Read More
Trinity Sunday Prayer
Dependent upon the grace of Christ, certain of the love of God, committed to fellowship by the Spirit, we are bold in prayer for Your sake (and for ours). Hear, O God, the groan of creation and hear also its song. Make our lives busy with the work of creation’s healing until the rivers play again… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Names
Dear God, I am grateful that you want us to know you; that you make yourself known to us in story, in creation, and in the person of Jesus. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to point people to you, how to enlarge their view of you, how to engage them… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party – Three-in-One Edition
It’s Trinity Sunday. Are you experiencing the presence of the creator as Isaiah describes? Are you listening to Jesus telling us how to be born from above, as Nicodemus did? Or, like the Romans, are you feeling the spirit of adoption? Or are you going to cover all three in one sermon? See what I… Read More
Friday Prayer: There is Love
At the beginning of time, there was chaos and darkness- disordered nothingness But that harsh environment, in the sharp edges of confusion and potential, There was Love. God’s own self existed- Truth does not exist in a vacuum. There was a relationship within God that is beyond our imagination. There was Love. The… Read More
