Category: bible/theology

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on February 1, 2015) Do you ever look at a word, and stare at it, and then all of a sudden the letters just make no sense any more? It just looks weird and wrong? Pageant. Pageant did that …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on January 25, 2015) Play a little game with me–one of these things is not like the other. Can you find the unique one? Some of those were subtle, some really obvious. For me, after all these months we’ve …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on January 18, 2015) The two things Jesus teaches in today’s section of the sermon on the mount are pretty much at the core of the things I most often speak or write about.  One is to reclaim an accurate …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on December 21, 2014) Who’s ready for some joy? I almost want to ask for a show of hands…things have been so difficult in the world and in our local community lately. Last week, somebody in the balcony said …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on December 14, 2014) Can there be comfort in something as difficult as repentance? Oh yes! It seems counter-intuitive in a world where we do about anything to hide our flaws, carefully curating one profile picture out of thousands …

(Message given November 30, 2014 at Newberg Friends Church) Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on November 9, 2014)   ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not …