Posts from March 2026

Holy Week – Shouts, Silence, and Songs

Holy Week starts this Sunday with Palm/Passion Sunday. As we have done for the past few Holy Weeks, we are going to do a sermon series that stretches throughout Holy Week – a bigger picture look at the powerful services that happen during this zenith of the church year. This year our series will be…

Lent and Spring Break

The word “Lent” is derived from the Old English “lencten”, which was the word for “Spring”. You can probably see our modern English word “Lengthen” in the word as well – this is not by accident. The word for Spring sounds like “lengthen” because in Spring the days “lengthen” as the amount of daylight increases…

Backed up

Woof. Today is one of those days. Last week I talked about the possibility of writing a newsletter article via ChatGPT, this week after a short day at work yesterday because of obligations, and then a dentist appointment that ran over time — well, I’m definitely still considering it. We have these days, right? These…

Value of a Human

How valuable is a human? Well, it kind of depends on how you look at that question. If you look at the human being as an animated bag of chemicals, our chemical make up averages only about $200 – if we were just using your potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorous. However, if you value a human…