What do you say? Remember that parental prompt our parents would give us to remember to say, “thank you, ” “please,” “excuse me,” “may I please be excused?” We do share those are phrases in our collective vernacular? Correct? I think we have lost something in translation. Somewhere in the invasion of “say whatever you are thinking,” we have […]
Month: May 2016
Filled with the Spirit: Confirmation Sunday
The process of letting go is never easy, especially if you love the person you are letting go. Kindergarten, high school, college, marriage, each stage is a sucker punch to the parent’s soul All of life is really a cycle of birthing, creating, forming, and then letting go. Think of the seasons, from the spring […]
The Prophet in the Suburbs
Can a pastor be prophetic in the suburbs? You know, the suburbs, that magical place, where everything is perfect. Where are there are no problems – at least not real ones, not ones that matter. Where there is no injustice – at least none that people want to recognize. I heard a sermon a few […]
