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We are going to be trying something completely different this year.  Lent is a season in the church where we are encouraged to commit ourselves more intentionally to spiritual disciplines, like prayer and Bible study.  To help provide a way to do that this year, we are offering a Sermon+ Bible study.  The way this … [Read more…]

Scripture:  Exodus 34:29-35 The famed renaissance artist Michelangelo is perhaps best known for his painting of the Sistine Chapel and for his sculpture of David.  However, the work that Michelangelo himself might be most proud of is the façade for the tomb of Pope Julius II.  This impressive marble structure contains multiple sculpted figures, but … [Read more…]

Scripture: Luke 6:27-38 If you’ve spent any amount of time in the workforce, then at some point you have heard the pithy employment proverb, “work smarter, not harder.”  The idea behind this is to find the most efficient way to get the job the done.   However, some people twist this a little bit and they … [Read more…]

Scripture:  6:17-26 Often one of the qualities that some of our most loved movies have in common regardless of the genre or when they came out is how quotable they are.  Many of us likely have beloved quotes from some our favorite movies that are often floating around somewhere in the back of our minds.   … [Read more…]

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…]