Lectionary blog for May 6 The Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 Writing in USA Today (May 8, 2006), Presbyterian Pastor Henry G. Brinton made…
Have you ever wished that giving to your congregation was an easier process? Even if your congregation has implemented online giving, you may have found yourself wanting to be able…
More than 64,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016, government figures show, and the number is rising due to the opioid crisis. And much more numerous are the people…
Raise your hand if you’ve eaten today! OK! Now raise your hand if you plan on eating tomorrow! All right! Everybody who had a hand up should be interested in…
Lectionary blog for April 29 The Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 22:25-31; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and my father is the vine-grower”…
Lectionary blog for April 22 The Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 4:5-12; Psalm 23; 1 John 3:11-24; John 10:11-18 Today is the time for us to look up and follow…
Lectionary blog for April 15 The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3:12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48 “While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering.” (Luke…
When I first heard Brené Brown’s viral original TED talk on the power of vulnerability to combat shame, I knew I was listening to something important. It turns out that…
Data from pollsters and sociologists agree that the church occupies a smaller, less-prominent place in our culture than it did even a generation ago. Some are even using the term…
Lectionary blog for April 8 The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 133; 1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31 “BAM!” My little Datsun was slammed into by a large delivery truck…
The first “Evangelicals” were the courageous Christians who gathered 500 years ago around Martin Luther, the monk who taught faith insights so revolutionary that the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated him…
Lectionary blog for April 1 The Resurrection of Our Lord Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Mark 16:1-8 Some years ago, I was traveling east of Atlanta on…
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