Ten Reasons Nature is Good for Your Soul
This blog is Part 1 in a four-part series. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir, 1912 God made this…
Can You Celebrate Easter Without Lent?
Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter, beginning with Ash Wednesday (March 6 this year), culminating with our celebration of the Greatest Day, the day death died and hope triumphed, our Resurrection Sunday (April 21). I didn’t grow…
Sloth vs. Diligence
We are always being formed. We are formed by vice or by virtue. Either way, these are the habits that shape us. Are we living with vice or virtue, sloth or diligence? The vice of sloth is easily misunderstood. Sloth is…
Killing Envy with Kindness
We compiled a sermon series on the Vices & Virtues, the seven deadly sins and their corresponding virtues. We are no stranger to the vices. We have been fighting anger, lust, gluttony, sloth, vainglory, and greed for years. But what about…
Habits of Life and Death
Toward the end of his life, the Apostle Peter writes to fellow believers, “to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours.” Peter also writes to us. He says we are to live in such a way…
Wisdom in the Workplace
Every time we turn around, it seems, there’s another scandal. Another impropriety, another accusation, another failure. And it’s clear: the church is not immune. Christians are not invincible and neither are church leaders. Recently, I have been encouraged by the…