A few years ago, my pastor’s group (the Mountaineers) went to Chicago together to do breath work by doing Improv comedy. We spent a week...

Here it is. My last epistle for the next four months. Do keep in mind that Chris will be picking up my reflections in my blog and...

For the last couple of weeks I have started walking us through the plans for the summer. We have talked about your themes and...

Last week we started talking about what is in store for all of us this summer. I started by addressing why doing storytelling this summer...

So believe it or not, I have just four epistle reflections left before I begin my sabbatical. Now, never fear, you will still hear from...

This Sunday is one of my favorite Sundays—Holy Humor Sunday. Now we don’t do this every year, but it seemed very appropriate to have some...

Growing up in Aztec, New Mexico, there was a long-standing tradition for Easter Sunday morning—the Easter Sunrise service at the Aztec...

We have spent our season of Lent in the shadow of mystery. We have explored such mysteries like the Trinity, the Incarnation, the...

So this week we return to Revelation! We are going to cover an awful lot of territory on Sunday, but there is a really important reason...

83 feet. That is how much water was above my head yesterday morning—83 feet. As I sat there at the very bottom of the Blue Hole in Santa...

If you have been here for Palm Sunday in the past, you know that one of my favorite things to preach on is the tension of this season. On...

This week, we return to the gospel of John (12:20-33). Any time you are dealing with the gospel of John, you have to be prepared to deal...

This Sunday we will be diving into scripture that has serious baggage—John 3. It is hard not to think about this passage without all the...

This week, we continue our journey to prepare for the coming of the Christ Child, by reflecting on two other sets of characters in our...

One of the richest stories in all of Genesis is the Joseph story. Unfortunately, not much of it makes it into the lectionary. We...

So, I have spent the better part of a week debating what scripture we would be doing this Sunday. I originally planned to go with the...

One of my favorite Sundays of the church year is Palm/Passion Sunday. I tend to like it because there is a delicious tension that tends...

This week, our Lenten focus is the Gift of Difficult People, or as Yaconelli entitled his chapter “Idiots.” Our symbol to go along with...

So this week we are talking about Darkness and we are talking about the symbols of the wheel and the fish (if you are unfamiliar with the...

It is hard to imagine, that I have been writing this blog for three years now. This Sunday I happen to be preaching on the beatitudes,...