Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 It has been my joy to have some level of involvement with youth ministry since 2003. There are a lot of highlights of working in ministry with teens. There are the spiritual highlights of seeing young people take deeper steps into faith, gaining a greater understanding of scripture, or beginning to discover … [Read more…]
Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10 The Super Bowl is on February 13th, and many sports fans are looking forward to that big game. However, for another group of sports fans the day they are more excited about is the day after the super bowl because February 14th is the day that pitchers and catchers start reporting for … [Read more…]
Several years ago there was a national library advertising campaign called “geek the library.” The campaign would feature library patrons with something they loved. So for instance if someone loved baseball it might show them with a bat and glove. These ads then used geek as a verb. So in the baseball example it would … [Read more…]
Scripture: Luke 4:14-30 In 1962, Dick Rowe, an executive responsible for signing new talent, sat through an audition that he found mostly unimpressive. The band had a sound that was different, especially for what was trending in the U.K. music scene at the time. Rowe rejected the band infamously saying, “Guitar groups are on their … [Read more…]
Scripture: John 2:1-11 I know it is still over six years away, and a lot can happen between now and then but our family has plans penciled in for the last couple of weeks of July 2028. In July of that year Los Angeles will be hosting the Summer Olympics. Abigail loves the Olympics and … [Read more…]
Scripture: Acts 8:14-17 In 1919 shortly after the end of World War I the army commissioned the Cross Country Motor Transport Train. The mission was to take a convoy of military vehicles across the country from New York City to San Francisco. The mission was two-fold. First it was an endurance stress test for the … [Read more…]
Scripture: Ephesians 3:1-13 In general we love a good mystery. One of the consistent, enduring, and endearing qualities of humanity is that we are insatiably curious. We want to know how things work, we want to know why things are the way they are, and we want to find answers to what we do not … [Read more…]
Change is a constant in life. This has always been true, but it feels like the past couple of years this has been especially true. Covid-19 brought about a huge disruption and a lot of change all across the board. The chaos that the pandemic brought is likely not over. Changes that were temporary have … [Read more…]
Scripture: Luke 2:41-51 It was a beautiful Spring Saturday in 2014. At this time Connor was four and was enjoying the weather playing outside. It was my job to keep an eye on him while also doing some Spring Cleaning. In doing so, I left the backyard to take something or another to the front … [Read more…]
Scripture: Luke 1:39-45 I do not remember my exact age at the time, but I remember being a child in the basement at Milan UMC for children’s church one Sunday. It was around this time of the year, and the teachers had decided for this particular Sunday we were going to sing Christmas Carols. We … [Read more…]
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