After 25 years of attending a church, a church in which I was highly involved, God brought it to an end. First in ministry and then the church itself. An unsettled feeling had entered into my heart and I found myself wanting more. More of what, I had no idea. I just knew that my time at this church, a church that I had loved for so long, was done. And what came next was completely unexpected. I found myself at a small charismatic church. Not sure how I got there, but once I w

For the past two years, our church has offered a Blue Christmas on the Friday before Christmas. It’s a service designed for those who are hurting or in pain, feeling loss, depressed, anxious, or hurt. It provides an opportunity where you can just feel and not worry about not fitting into the gaiety of the holiday. I’m writing this on Saturday. Yesterday was Good Friday, tomorrow is Easter and I find myself thinking that this is actually a “Blue Christmas” kind of day, the day

Today in my Lent devotion, I read about Judas, the never to be forgotten, betrayer of all betrayers. He thought he was doing the right thing and yet… I also read, the day before, about the others who betrayed Jesus, his disciples. The moment Jesus was arrested his friends took flight and ran away. And Peter, his bestie, denied him three times. These guys spent three years with him, lived with him up close and personal and yet they all betrayed him. But, being the Jesus that h