“My cup runneth over,” that is the way that the King James Version states a line in Psalm 23. Another translation says, “my cup overflows.” This overflow is a reality of our Christian faith. We recognize that we don’t just receive what we need, but that our cups are filled to overflowing – we have…

On my bookshelf I have a book entitled “The Next Reformation”. If you search Amazon, you can find plenty of books that are titled in similar ways: the next Reformation, the new Reformation, Reformation again, etc.  I get what those book titles are getting at, but I think in some ways, all of those titles…

Recently a friend of mine challenged me to think of the negative phrase that I tell myself most often. The phrase that came to the top for me was “I’m letting people down.” It doesn’t take me long to look around and see expectations that I have of myself, expectations that I have signed myself…

The final blessing in our worship services, also called “the Benediction” is a piece of Scripture from Numbers 6. That piece of Scripture repeats God’s instructions to Moses, who is to hand down instructions to Aaron to bless the people by saying: ” The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make His face…