This Sunday we start off our last “Done by Hope” annual focus sermon series. This one is going to go for 8 weeks and bring us through things like Reformation Day, All Saints, and Christ the King Sunday. But unlike some of our sermon series this year, this one doesn’t have “hope” in its name.…

We haven’t had a new member celebration in a while. Some of the reason we haven’t had one has been the pandemic and the strangeness of taking attendance for worship when a bunch of people are online. Some of the reason has been less new people visiting in general. But we haven’t neglected a new…

Are things in your life going reasonably well? Are they going pretty terribly? What do you attribute those states of success or failure to? Likely, one of the things that you may attribute those states to is your strengths or your lack of strengths. Unfortunately, sometimes that can be too simplistic, and you may be…

I don’t have a toenail. But I do have an ear.  A couple of weeks ago, a doctor took off my toenail because it had been infected. Apparently it is never supposed to grow back. I won’t have a toenail, but I will have an ear. And that’s important for reading the beginning of Revelation.…

My daughters have recently added something to our bedtime routine. Every night that I’m home, after we read our Bible story and say our prayers and when we’re settling down to go to sleep, one of them will whisper, “Daddy, tell us a story about when you were a little boy.”  We love stories as…