Holding the body and blood of Jesus in my hand felt different yesterday. Surely these elements took on new significance because our pastor’s entire sermon was about the Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples the night before His death, that meal in which he gives new meaning to the bread of affliction and the […] Read more
“Take the next 30 seconds or so and write down specifically what you have done in the past three months to help the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, or in prison,” our pastor asked us this morning. He was preaching from Matthew 25, the parable of the sheep and the goats, and making a list […] Read more
I remember all those days when I would be in the kitchen with my mom. Helping. Now that I am a cook and I sometimes invite children into the kitchen with me, I wonder how much help I really was. But as long as I didn’t talk too much while Mom was trying to measure, […] Read more
When the thermometer reached up into the 60s on Friday, unseasonably warm for late December in Indiana, the last of the snow melted from my yard. Though the temperatures have sunk back below freezing, with the snow now gone, I am once again greeted each day by the leaves still lying on the ground, the […] Read more
