Religious or Spiritual?
Tweet by Rev. Garrett Andrew It is fascinating to me how many people these days identify as spiritual but not religious. I have mostly taken it negatively, probably because of who I am. Most of the time I hear that I assume that someone really is not anything. That person does not go to church, [...]
Read More →Remembering the Mothers and All Women
Tweet Today is Mother’s Day. To those of you who are mothers I say, “Happy Mother’s Day.” I know that I wish I was with my mother today, but I also know that my three siblings are taking care of her back home. It will be a happy day for her. However, perhaps because I [...]
Read More →Bad Things,Good People
Tweet by Garrett Andrew One of my favorite writers/preachers, Fredrick Buechner, once said, “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Terrible things happen. A person or people decided to bomb runners and those that love them. Three are dead, many more are maimed, lives have been altered by violence [...]
Read More →Spring and Renewal
Tweet This is one of my favorite times of the year. Flowers are blooming wherever I look. The weather is warming but the chill of the morning air is still present. Things are starting to look greener. Days are getting longer. All in all life is beginning to resurrect from the dark days of winter.
Read More →Running toward the “God Light”
Tweet “This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, [...]
Read More →Living a Life of Celebration or Complaint
Tweet My son got into the bed with me and my wife this morning and I could feel him staring at me. It was the kind of stare where I could sense the cogs of his mind working and I did not have to ask what he was thinking because he would soon tell me. [...]
Read More →Why we serve others
Tweet He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to first must be last of all and servant of all.” – Mark 9:35 (NRSV) What does that passage mean to you? What do you think great is? Have you met someone who served all those around you? Was he/she somehow first? [...]
Read More →What is The Point of Church
Tweet My son had surgery Friday. Quite honestly, when I first heard he had to be put under and worked on I was terrified. Partially because when I took him to the doctor a couple of days before, I was not expecting to hear that, but mostly because I think that is the response that [...]
Read More →God Makes You Beautiful
Tweet If I can tell you one thing for this New Year, one thing that I hope you will remember, one thing that can give you the hope that we all need as days go on, one thing that is absolutely true of you and true of God, it is that God will make you [...]
Read More →The Week of Christmas and Is All Well?
Tweet Many of us are already sick of Christmas by the time we get to this week. We wonder if we are on the last lap of a race that we begin to think there is simply no hope of winning. The music, that we first loved to hear around Thanksgiving, has grown tired and worn us [...]
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