Month: September 2015

19 years ago this past summer, I was recorded as a minister in our Northwest Yearly Meeting. For us, recording means that the community of the Yearly Meeting recognizes and “records” when a person has been gifted and called by God to publicly serve in …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on September 20, 2015.) It’s our second week looking at James chapter 1. You’ll get a chance before we are done today to share some things you notice in this chapter. I’m drawn to focus on four verses that …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on September 13, 2015) If you google, “What happened to sin?”…you discover that lots of people have written about that question. One piece I found was written by Philip Yancey in March of 2014, titled “Whatever Happened to the …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on September 6, 2015) One of the greatest critiques of religion is hypocrisy– when someone doesn’t act in line with what they believe and teach. I think the reason hypocrisy drives us all crazy is that we want faith …