With our routines and world upended by the Shelter in Place Order earlier this week that affects all of California, we are looking for ways to stay connected during a mandate to physically stay apart from one another. I have been blessed to spend Lent providing pulpit supply to Grace Community Church in North Fork, … Continue reading Palm Sunday | April 5, 2020 | Scripture, Sermon, & Prayers
Can These Bones Live? | March 29, 2020 | Scripture, Sermon, & Prayers
With our routines and world upended by the Shelter in Place Order earlier this week that affects all of California, we are looking for ways to stay connected during a mandate to physically stay apart from one another. I have been blessed to spend Lent providing pulpit supply to Grace Community Church in North Fork, … Continue reading Can These Bones Live? | March 29, 2020 | Scripture, Sermon, & Prayers
Shelter in Grace | March 22, 2020 | Scripture, Sermon, & Prayers
With our routines and world upended by the Shelter in Place Order earlier this week that affects all of California, we are looking for ways to stay connected during a mandate to physically stay apart from one another. I have been blessed to spend Lent providing pulpit supply to Grace Community Church in North Fork, … Continue reading Shelter in Grace | March 22, 2020 | Scripture, Sermon, & Prayers
Sermon | March 15, 2020
https://youtu.be/tyi0CVcrWQ0 Lent 3A: Exodus 17:1-7 • Psalm 95 • Romans 5:1-11 • John 4:5-42 Note: The video cut out after seven and a half minutes, so I apologize there isn't a full sermon. That's what I get for taking 800,000 pictures of my cute kids and never freeing up space! Is the Lord among us, or not? Panic buying. Cancelled events. … Continue reading Sermon | March 15, 2020
Sermon | March 8, 2020
https://youtu.be/7YlapdcTQII Lent 2, Year A Genesis 12:1-4a • Psalm 121 • Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 • John 3:1-17 Did you ever have an elaborate secret handshake as a kid? Or a password to get into a clubhouse? Was there criteria for who got the code, or a list of those who are in and those who are out? How was it established? … Continue reading Sermon | March 8, 2020
New Year’s Revolutions
Image swiped from Facebook When I was a teen I misspelled New Year’s Resolutions as New Year's Revolutions in my diary. The things I was calling revolutions back in 1996 were hardly revolutionary. There was probably some self-depricating allusion to taming my triangular-shaped hairstyle or a star-struck vow to FIND Jonathan Taylor Thomas and WOO … Continue reading New Year’s Revolutions
#keepChristianityweird
Sometimes I think of the nature of the vocation I'm pursuing and I get caught up in how massively weird it is. It's only because it's become a dominant faith tradition through brute strength, colonization, and genocide that Christianity gets a free pass when it comes to bizarre beliefs. We've pushed our way into a … Continue reading #keepChristianityweird
God’s Radical Love for Blended Families
My family is so blended. So blended to the point where it’s hard to explain who everyone is and how we’re all related. We were recently asked how we should put our family name on the order of worship for the lighting of the fourth Advent candle. I semi-panicked, it’s a church that has invited … Continue reading God’s Radical Love for Blended Families
Busy
I am from Busy. I am from multiple lanes of traffic and well-timed lights t the intersections. I am from a full schudule, no breaks. I am from comfort in chaos, but my therapist tells me sometimes it's good to leave my comfy home of busyness and land. Park. Sit. Breathe. Breathe in quietude and … Continue reading Busy
Consent & Christ
Last night, after getting off the phone with my mom, I ended up going down this Christianity and Empire rabbit hole thanks to a load of homework I still had to do, and it got me thinking about consent. One of the readings that got my brain turning around this was from Social Analysis for … Continue reading Consent & Christ
Busy Little Sunshine 