Dear readers, As we reach the end of another year, I’d like to pause and thank you for reading this blog, for sharing its posts on Facebook and Twitter, and for engaging me in the comments. You have corrected me when I relied on lazy assumption, and you have supported me when things got personal.…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on Christmas Eve 2012. Luke 2:1-20 The shepherds in this possibly familiar Christmas story are so interesting to me. Because they didn’t sign up to be a part of this. They aren’t religious professionals. They are just people, doing their job, on a hillside. And…
Governor Mike Huckabee got himself in a heap of trouble after the shootings in Connecticut when he said this: “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6…
In response to the slaughter of the innocents in Connecticut last week, President Obama quoted Paul’s second letter to the church in Corinth. (2 Cor 4:16-5:1). Full speech can be viewed here. So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.…
Here is the prompt from over at Revgalblogpals: “Those of you who are my friends on Facebook know I’ve been trying to post Advent music in this season, which is no small trick because, as you well know, it’s been “Christmas” since Halloween in the world out there! So today we focus on Advent and…
This is another one of those posts about running. I end up on the trails with nothing but my own thoughts for company, and this is what happens. The other morning, I realized I am a “far horizon” girl when I run. I like to look at the hills, the vistas, the mountains in the…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church December 9, 2012 Mal 3:1-4 Luke 1:5-25, 57-80 If pastors were honest about it, Zechariah is probably one of the stories we like the least. He is one of our own, a priest, serving God in the temple in Jerusalem. One priest would go in and make the…
Here is the prompt from over at RevGalBlogPals: Advent blessings to you! Our Friday Five today is taken from a small lucite box of questions called “Table Topics” that someone gave me. They are supposed to be discussion starters at all of the dinner parties one gives. I think some of them are fun, so here…
A sermon preached on the First Sunday of Advent at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho December 2, 2012 Jeremiah 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-38 Welcome to Advent! I know some of you think “Advent” is Latin for “why won’t Marci let us sing Christmas Carols?”, but in fact, adventus means “arriving”, or “coming”. It is the…
At the conclusion of today’s sermon, we used this litany in worship this morning. Written by my friend Kathryn Nicole (shared with her permission). Based on Philippians 3:4b-14 Litany of Loss and Hope: Voice One (Present): We are confident in the flesh, in the flesh of skin and bone, in the flesh we call our…
Glass Overflowing 