Sermons

Psalm 42 is a song of lamentation that expresses a deep desire to belong. Deep calls to deep, and we all have a desire to belong, to be united with the God of our making. With the events in Orlando fresh on our minds, we have to ask ourselves what we mean when we say God’s love is for

Sin, transgression, iniquity: These things we carry in our hearts as memories of past or current actions and choices. Though they are intangible, they are extremely heavy and hard to carry around. They weigh us down and we expend a lot of energy trying to keep them quiet, in the dark.

Names, the ones we’re given and the ones we give ourselves, are important because they identify us. They are a part of us. Maybe you’ve been internalizing, taking on some life-taking, wound-inflicting names—old, slow, stupid, failure, fat, ugly, failure, drug addict, worthless. In the

We always need to take a moment to ask how we are doing, because the major work and major heartache of living together has no end destination, really. We are always on this journey charting courses and then leaving ourselves open to the Spirit’s lead to take us where the Spirit will take us. We