Picking up from yesterday’s post, Asking God about relationship. +++ We get a picture of that compassionate God in our Gospel reading. It’s a familiar story to many people. We talk about it as the feeding of the 5000, though it more likely is the feeding of the 15,000 or more, since there were whole […]

There are two stories going on in the readings we used in our chapel service on Sunday. (The main texts were John 6:1-21 and Ephesians 3:14-21.) One story is about provision. One is about prayer.One is about meeting needs. One is about having needs.One is about what God does. One is about what we ask. […]

God. Paul asked you to help people understand how big your love is. As they came together and learned together and prayed together,he wanted them to deepen in your love.He wanted them to know your love.   We want to know your love. We think it looks like enough to eat, even if it takes […]

On my list right now are several items. You know the kind of list. And we struggle to know what to do next. For some of us, that struggle is about pleasing people. For others, that struggle is about making God happy (or not making God mad). For still others, the struggle is about being […]

Some of you know that every Sunday when I walk into the hospital to work, I send a photo to Instagram and Facebook. “Happy Sunday” is what I write. For a couple years, every time I went for a run, I posted a photo of a coffee mug on the railing of our deck. It […]