2 Corinthians 2:5-13 and 2 Corinthians 7:5-13 One day the scribes and the Pharisees noticed all the sinners crowding around Jesus, and they began grumbling: You can just tell. This guy is up to no good! Well, Jesus heard them; he heard the derision in their tone, and...

2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2 A few years ago, I came upon an article that I’ve been thinking about ever since. The writer’s grandmother, JoAnn, had been living with Alzheimers, and the disease brought about some strange changes in her. Some of her other physical ailments...

2 Corinthians 1:1-11 You might have heard the well-loved tear-blessed story called “Footprints in the Sand” by Mary Stevenson. One night a woman has a dream where she looks back at scenes from her life. She also sees two sets of footprints winding along the beach. Now...

Introduction to the Scripture Today we’re continuing the summer series called, Why Church? Of all the organizations, and causes, and communities to which we could give our lives, why choose to be part of a church? What does a church have that we’re needing… This is...

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 In Nineteen Ninety-Eight, Welsh calligrapher Donald Jackson, who had previously served as an official scribe to the Queen, began collaborating with a team at Saint John’s University in Minnesota in order to bring to life a project he had long...

Genesis 9:8-17 With neighborhood cookouts and concerts, block parties, and art festivals, this is the weekend when communities around the nation celebrate Juneteenth. You might know, this holiday got started in Texas on June Nineteenth, Eighteen Sixty-Five. That’s...

Genesis 8:1-12 Right in the middle of the scripture Sylvia read, Noah looked out the window of the ark, and he saw the dove swooping toward him. And she had nothing in her beak. And she looked exhausted. Noah reached out the window so she could land on his bony...

Galatians 3:1-9, Galatians 3:23-29 Somewhere around thirty-five years ago, protestant churches in the United States realized that the practice of going to church on Sunday was no longer just a normal thing that people did. So in an effort to reverse declining...

Galatians 1:13-17 and Galatians 2:11-21 On that night, when Paul stormed over to Peter in the cafeteria in Antioch, Peter knew he had been caught. His face flushed, and he began stammering an explanation, and look, Paul is the one telling the story, and sure, Paul was...

Acts 15:1-18 In some years at Church of Peace, the first Sunday in May is Confirmation Sunday. Alongside celebrating our young people, one of the things I love about this Sunday is it asks all of us —everybody in the room— to imagine ourselves making the same...