Article: Trust God

Sometimes we keep the sin in our lives well protected, guarded, covered over with lies. Sometimes we are not free enough to own our sin, so we cannot be healed of it. An unacknowledged wound cannot be healed.—MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, Seasons of Your Heart  Sin always wounds the sinner.—CARYLL HOUSELANDER, The Reed of God  Is sin a big…

I’ve been reflecting on the importance of, if not the holy imperative of repentance. What caused this reflection on my part? Because of all the evil things I’ve read in the news recently. Not to diminish smaller sins, but the news I have been reading this past week contains people doing really bad and horrible…

    It is Maundy (Commandment) Thursday (as I write this). Later today we will remember the covenant God made with us through His son Jesus. The bread and wine of Holy Communion are the means by which that covenant is experienced. The Lord’s Supper is such a wonderful gift! Every time we gather at…

I recently came across an article from the Good News Network about some very old trees. In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years old—showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However, another scientist recently found that a living individual, known as…

I don’t want to be a Pharisee. You know, the religious authorities and teachers of the Law of Moses that Jesus tangled with during his earthly ministry. I know that may sound like a silly thing to say but the day I entered the seminary to become a pastor, I began my training as a…