For all of you who are inclined to attend the Easter Sunrise service this year on April 5 th  at 7 a.m., I hope you will linger afterwards for our Easter Breakfast. I realize that Easter brunch will always be more popular than Easter Breakfast, but I love the tradition of Easter Breakfast. One of my favorite stories in the Gospel of John is the story of Jesus making breakfast for some of the disciples after they had spent a long night of fishing without catching anything (John 21). Jesus told...

As we begin our Lenten journey together, I’d like to share something from church historian and author Kate Bowler on what Lent really entails. In a recent Instagram post she said, For the next thirty seconds, I’m going to de-influence Lent for you. If Lent is a reset, that is not Lent. If it’s a glow-up or a plan or forty days to get it together, that is not Lent. If it promises relief, or closure, or emotional resolution, that is not Lent. If it expects your grief to behave or your body to...

During the month of February we continue with our sermon series on the Gospel of John.  And this month the focus is on healing stories.  We’ll witness the healing of a man who had some kind of infirmity for 38 years, the healing of a man blind from birth, and, perhaps the ultimate healing story, the raising of Lazarus.   In John 5, the man with the 38-year-long infirmity keeps trying to crawl to a pool when it gets stirred up in hopes of being healed.  When Jesus asks him directly, “Do you...