This is a time of year that brings with it cheerfulness as the weather warms and nature returns from its winter rest. While winter has been pleasant this year, we still feel a renewed sense of energy as birds, trees, and flowers begin to slowly emerge. It is in this ... Continue

The first question in our New Series:  You Asked For It! is "As Christians, How Should We Manage Our Wealth?"  This Sunday we begin to ponder this question by taking a look at how Scripture describes our relative ownership of material goods.  To appropriately deal with the question we must ... Continue

We continue our series looking at the birth of Jesus and our belief that he was the God of the universe arriving in the fulness of time.  This week we will spend some moments tracing some high-points in the search for the historical Jesus, while noticing that scholarship has come ... Continue

Contextual challenges seem constantly in front of our call to share the faith with the human family throughout the world.  The early church handled these challenges quite well.  The gospel of John is a fine example of sharing a biography of Jesus within both a Jewish and Greco-Roman context.  The ... Continue

As I sit and watch the rain fall to the ground, and the brilliant green colors emerging all around, I feel a sense of joy as nature’s potency returns in full force.  My emotions are mixed, however.  I experience sadness over the loss of life in Japan and Alabama that ... Continue

As we continue our series, "Building Block For the Christian Life," we are going to take a few weeks to talk about how we should read the Bible.  Should I approach the book of Revelation the same way I approach Galatians.  How do Old Testament books relate to one another.  ... Continue

In the beginning of yet another year, I spend much of my personal time immersed in reading the thoughts and lives of many current atheists and religious agnostics.  Their arguments are rarely new, but their openness and self-disclosure is more pronounced than the older popular and academic intellectuals.  Many of ... Continue

For those of you who spend life hanging of every word of this new blog, I will get back to the "goodness of creation" thoughts, through an early Buddhist lens, soon.  But, I have had this long lost book of Romans on my mind. How is it that when dealing with ... Continue

As I am working toward my last message based on the Apostle Paul's first letter to Timothy, I find myself still pondering the power his claim that "everything God created is good ...." While I recognize that the context for Paul's writing is to help Timothy structure a church ... Continue