Monthly Archives: January 2013

Last Sunday, in some church somewhere, during Prayer Time, a football fan asked the community to pray for his team, who was playing a playoff game later that afternoon.  It was a BIG game.  If his team won, they’d go … Continue reading →

          What are your gifts?  What are you really good at doing?  What comes easier to you than anything else?  I’m not asking about your job. Your job and your gifts might coincide, but they don’t always.  I’m asking, What … Continue reading →

          Volatile grace.  An interesting juxtaposition of words, isn’t it?  Sounds like an oxymoron.  Grace is one of the biggie theological terms.  It has to do with acceptance, radical acceptance of people just as they are, “wherever they are on … Continue reading →

In preparation for tonight’s service, I looked back through some of my meditations from Christmas Eve services past.  Many of them dealt in some way with the absence of the baby Jesus from the nativity scene.  A couple of years … Continue reading →