Last Day in our House

Last Day in our House

by | May 11, 2017 | Personal Updates

I sit in the quiet of the morning. It is the quiet before the storm. The moving truck is scheduled to arrive in a couple hours. Soon all of our physical possessions will be loaded onto a truck and hauled away to be stored overnight. This is my last day in this house....
Last Day in our House

What God Has Made Clean…

by | May 4, 2017 | Devos

The daily reading for today is Acts 10:1-33. Every time I read this text I am amazed both at the message itself and in the way Peter responds. Here’s a guy that has been raised his entire life to believe that certain types of food, and certain types of people,...
A Graceful Farewell

A Graceful Farewell

by | Apr 30, 2017 | Personal Updates

This was a special day. Grace Lutheran Church held a farewell for me, and it was beautiful. The Fellowship Hall was decorated with love, a spread of cookies, cakes and fruit, and each table was centered with a pile of Almond Joy candy-bars to send me off with JOY! I...
Last Day in our House

Mountain Lion and the Gods

by | Apr 25, 2017 | Art

My daughter, Leah, is going to graduate from high school in a month. She asked me to paint something for her as a graduation gift. We decided it would be a mountain lion sitting in front of the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. Why? Because she is going to...
Prayer in the Face of Injustice

Prayer in the Face of Injustice

by | Apr 25, 2017 | Devos

The Narrative Lectionary reading for today is Acts 4:23-31. I decided to go back and look to see what I wrote about this passage in the Hart Haus Acts study. Here it is. You’ll notice a slight change in my language since then. Namely, I still referred to God as...
A Word to the White Preacher

A Word to the White Preacher

by | Apr 24, 2017 | ministry

Jan Edmiston’s post is called “Preaching While White” and is worth the read. It is timely for me as I am currently reading through the Religious Education Journal issue dedicated to Race and Religious Education. One thing that I am gleaning from...

The Cross, The Gaze, The Table…and Eyes are Opened

by | Apr 23, 2017 | Devos

Two texts converged on me this morning and compelled me to reflect on their intersection. The first is the Narrative Lectionary text for this weekend found in Luke 24:13-35. This is the story of how Jesus appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus after his...

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