It was a sun-soaked afternoon. People had been lining the streets for hours with more and more joining them as the day stretched on. The excitement and fervor of the day’s events and the merriment of the folks lining the streets encouraged a sense of joy and hope and good tidings for all. Strangers and […]
What is sacrifice? Where does our faith really lie? Why is it so much easier to live in doubt and darkness, fear and fright, rather than hope and trust? These are the questions I have often asked myself in times that were good and not so good. But they were never the questions I thought […]
“Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.” I’ve spent some time this week thinking about mortality. I’m betting you have too. I haven’t been thinking about my own mortality so much as how death seems to have become a part of life in a much more cultural […]
In the name of one God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. As Jesus said to the Samaritan woman this day, we do not have to worship at Ascension to still worship together. I want to tell you a story about my dog Cuthbert, or Cutty as many of you know him. My sweet little […]
Torah is the law of God and is recorded in the first five books of the Old Testament or the Pentateuch as our Jewish friends would call it. Torah consists of 613 commandments passed down by Moses. Of the 613 commandments there are 365 negative commandments or “thou shall not” commandments and 248 positive commandments […]
There are a lot of references to forty days in the Bible. There is the flood—a time when the earth was swept clean of its unrighteousness and God promised never to do that again. Moses goes up to the mountain for forty days in order to receive the Ten Commandments. There is the Israelites wandering […]
Maria had never left the four block radius in Nashville where she had been born. Her father was a pimp and a drug dealer and her mother was an addict and prostitute. She was in her mid-twenties but wasn’t sure of her exact age. She had gone to elementary school and could read and write […]