Category Archives: On the way to Sunday’s sermon

Being articulate and disillusioned about the church is popular. There is a lot of angst over a generation of people raised in the church who feel they were sold a bill of goods and are not afraid to talk about … Continue reading →

Addiction to Circumstance We are, by nature, addicted to circumstance. As infants we cried when we were hungry, cold or wet and hoped someone would heed our plea. As we grew, this pattern scaled up, grew more complex, deepened. When … Continue reading →

Mike learned early in his life about rescue and what it required. Do you think Mike believed in hell? “Sit where you normally would” Contemporary thinking on hell suffers from the same fractious polarization that plagues many other areas of … Continue reading →

The Murder of Children The Exodus story begins with the multiplication of offspring and their murder. The descendants of Israel have been fruitful and have multiplied greatly to the point that the king of Egypt sees them as a threat. … Continue reading →

The Prodigal Son Every couple of months of so I get an invitation to explain Christianity to a class at a local art institute named “Myth, Magic and Ritual”. It’s an opportunity I always look forward to and am never … Continue reading →

Why Can’t Pharaoh Stop? This is week number three for us in the plagues. We’re up to #7: Nile to blood Frogs Gnats or lice flies plague that kills the livestock boils hail By the time we get to hail … Continue reading →

To Know God is to Love Him? Christians in American commonly think that the reason people don’t love God is because they don’t know him. Many who are “spiritual but not religious” seem to feel similarly. Such a god is … Continue reading →

One detail that has always bothered me about the story in Exodus of Moses and Yhwh demanding the release of Israel from Pharaoh is the tidbit that the demand is that the children of Israel receive permission to travel three … Continue reading →

In Appreciation of Pharaoh Pharaoh always gets a bad rap in the Exodus story and that’s too bad. Dialing back our judgmental posture towards Pharaoh might afford us a bit of enlightenment. I always wondered why Pharaoh didn’t just kill … Continue reading →