As a person, and as a pastor, I use profanity. I don’t claim that I always am on the right side of morality every time I do it, but I also want to challenge the conventional ideas we have around profanity, too.

Many of us have grown up being taught that anger is a bad emotion.

Shadowed valleys, evil and enemies aren’t powerful enough to defeat the size of hope God gives us. That is what I take home with me about Psalm 23.

God is setting a plumb line in our midst so we can discern what is just and right! May we never stop searching for it, and should we find it, then may we base how we live our lives on it.

When you look around and see abundance and “enough” instead of scarcity, what crises-turned-opportunities can you find?

In 2 Corinthians, Paul writes that we are “God’s co-workers.”

The fact of the matter is this, I need help all of the time. And I have sabotaged myself tons of times by not asking for it.

We praise God in all the ways it can be done so we don’t lose our faith in that steadfast love that is with us, even when we have a hard time feeling it.

Before we belong any community, friendship, or family, we belong to God.

The struggle we have with unworthiness is universal. What matters is if we can recognize that for the lie that it is.

I don’t know how other pastors feel, but practicing a prayer habit is difficult for me.

The United Methodist Church is moving in unimaginable and holy ways toward justice and inclusion this week.

There just might be a different narrative that will come out of this United Methodist General Conference in 2024.

Sometimes, loving other people can be one of the hardest things God asks us to do.

Perhaps the most difficult thing about dealing with sin isn’t about naming it--instead, the most difficult thing about sin is that being healed from it requires us to be willing to become transformed.

This week, I want to share our values of Invitation

We are forging a path for our church’s future in April!

Judas is no less a beloved child of God than you or me. And any single one of us is capable of Judas’ betrayal and failure.

Love is messy. And when we are called to love our neighbor, that means being in the mess with them sometimes too.

What is God’s? And are we neglecting to offer up to God what is God’s when we fill out our tax returns this year?