It is NOT too hard…

It takes a guy like Moses to tell people who are standing in the middle of a desert with no food stores, no national economy, and not much of a standing army that their proposed invasion of the Promised Land wouldn’t be too hard. Here. You read it. Pretty good...

Keeping Promises

This world is my home. I don’t plan to fly away. I’d rather build God’s kingdom here than slip into some fantasy cloudscape with a little cabin in the corner of Gloryland. Honestly, I don’t even know what that last part means. In all of the...

A Pastor’s Job Description

We’ve been gathering job descriptions at Piperton UMC lately. Some were concerned that the job descriptions were going to be used for thorough overhauls of the work done at our church. They aren’t. Some were afraid that we were trying to figure out who to...

Living After Resurrection

Since right after Christmas, we’ve been dealing with questions. For four Sundays, I endeavored to answer your questions in a series of sermons that approached some difficult thinking. My apologies for rephrasing some of the questions, but I think we got some...

‘For Whom Do You Seek?”

I had a professor in Seminary who came in and sat with the class as we were settling in the first day. He was a grad student assigned to teach a class on the culture of Christianity, so he looked like the rest of us—and he didn’t sit at the desk where we thought the...

Hang It Up or Lay It Down

Last week’s sermon in the Lenten sermon series was based on the chance Jesus offered to the disciples to opt out of the radical life-change that he was advocating. This challenge included the Apostles, and it includes us. Based on the context, Jesus was pointing...