There is alot going on with our texts today  and each is filled with good stuff.  It has been difficult focusing on one particular theme this week so I’ve gone pretty broad with my sermon.  Not only is it Trinity Sunday, but it’s also Baccalaureate celebration so somehow I’d like to connect with our HS […]

This weekend we are celebrating the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out over the community of believers, and moved them to witness to the good news of Jesus. We often struggle with how to talk about or understand the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is elusive, undefinable, not easily pinned down […]

“Jesus ascending to heaven” by John Singleton Copley – abcgallery.com. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg#/media/File:Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg What do you make of Jesus’ Ascension? Jesus ascension raises a lot of questions. Where did Jesus go? Where is heaven? How do we reconcile the ascension with what we know from science? While these questions […]

9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be […]