John 15:1-17 I went through some of my old journals recently and I was struck by how I talked about my oldest friend Isabel. Her parents...

Sermon recorded on Facebook Live Matthew 10:34 Looking for inspiration and a chance for an interactive sermon, I asked on Facebook if any...

Isaiah 56:1-8 One of my favorite parts of being a Christian is that we live in this odd tension between what is Holy and what is...

1 John 4:12-21 When I spoke at a middle school snow camp, I went there with one goal in mind: I wanted to help every single kid there...

Psalm 51 “Create in me a clean heart O God, renew a right spirit within me.” Man, I hate this psalm. I really do. When I hear these...

John 5:1-9 Like any good Christian...I grew up watching Criminal Minds, CSI, Bones, Monk…all the good, albeit sometimes disturbing, crime...

Psalm 23 Have you ever had the experience when you, for some reason, say a word over and over and over again and somehow the word sounds...

Acts 11:1-18 I want to offer a warning for this sermon. This sermon is a gross sermon. You will likely find it disgusting at points. I...

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The church is dying. This is a reality we must face. Mennonite Church USA used to number around 120 thousand and now it...

Numbers 27:1-11 I wanted to do something different this week. I didn’t want to go with a lectionary text, so I asked my friend what his...

Acts 2:1-13 I have a story for you. A true story of Pentecost in the twenty-first century. This story is by Naomi Shihab Nye "After...

1 Kings 19:1-14 When I say the name Jezebel, what words come to mind? Evil. Queen. Dogs. Foreign. Violent. Cruel. Idolater. Queen Jezebel...

1 Samuel 1:1-8 I need to make a confession; I was ridiculously happy when I got the sermon surveys back (like months ago) and I saw that...

1 Samuel 18:1-4 I went to an Enneagram workshop last Wednesday with four other women, including our very own Marcella. During that...

Genesis 29:16-30 My sister and I have very different stories when it comes to the dynamic between us growing up. I always thought of...

1 Corinthians 14:31-40 and 1 Timothy 2:11, 12 When trying to figure out what to preach this Sunday, I asked my dad if he had any...

Luke 12: 49-56 I talked to my sister on the phone the other day, she told me that while she was making pizza for lunch she went to take...

Have you noticed anything different about today? About Luke’s text, or the decorations of the room? What is missing this Palm Sunday?...

Luke 24:1-12 I was talking to my housemate Elma about Holy Week and Easter coming up. Trying to improve my Spanish, I asked her what the...

Genesis 15 I had grand plans for this sermon. We were going to dive in deep and get messy in this crazy and complicated text. We were...