Minister's Musings

This Sunday is Easter! Tomorrow is Good Friday. It is quite the journey from one to the next. read more

This weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday. In the story of our faith, today Jesus arrives in Jerusalem to the hopeful cries of crowds desperately longing for a change from the world as it is. Today we begin our walk through the fateful days of Holy Week. Today the forces that Paul called “the principalities and powers” muster their response to Jesus and his vision of the world God wants. read more

This week in worship we’ll explore Aaron Miller’s chapter on Discipline (how does that make us weird in the world?), and our focus scripture will be God working through Samuel to find a new King. Aaron starts his chapter with a quotation from Quaker Richard Foster: The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. read more