Isaiah 1:10-17, John 8:2-11 I came to Jerusalem for the festival, like everyone else. Every year when the harvest comes in, we travel up the hill to the city. The roads fill with pilgrims and wagons, children running ahead of their parents. You can smell dates and figs drying in baskets, hear lambs bleating and […]
Dear Faith Family, This past Wednesday was one of those days when the calendar seemed to fill every available space. From early morning until mid-afternoon I moved from meeting to meeting – planning worship music, discussing technology upgrades for our staff, exploring ways we might support justice work here in Wichita, checking in with staff, […]
Matthew 19:13-15 and Deuteronomy 24:17-22 I remember the day we brought the children to Jesus. Word had spread that he was coming through our village, and people were already gathering along the road, some hoping to hear him teach, some hoping for healing, and some just curious. We had heard the stories. They said he […]
This week the news has once again turned our attention toward the Middle East, as tensions with Iran continue to escalate and the threat of a wider regional war grows more real. For many of us, these headlines stir both concern for the present and memories of conflicts past. I remember the first Gulf War […]
Mark 6:32-44, 2 Kings 4:42-44 We started this morning with Elisha. A man brings twenty loaves. A hundred people are hungry. The servant does the math. “It’s not enough.” And the prophet says, “Give it to the people.” He doesn’t argue with the numbers. He doesn’t deny the scarcity. He simply refuses to let scarcity […]
