Children, Palm Sunday and a Donkey

Each Palm Sunday, our children and whole congregation have a wonderful celebration, cheering Jesus on with shouts of "Hosanna!"

This year though, I wondered if we were called, as a congregation, to get the donkey...

Holy and Humans (Lent V)

We humans are called to be Holy. Yet we are human. The Bible is Holy. Yet clearly human. What gives? How can be both holy and human? What does Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth have to do with all of this?

Prophetic Challenge

To help us understand the prophetic section of the Bible, we are looking at the call of Isaiah, found in chapter 6. It begins with the death of King Uzziah. Who cares? What does this mean? Beginning with this intro, we discover the three challenges to reading the prophets: The challenge of the mind, of the heart and finally of the spirit.

David and Nathan

We continue "opening the word" by looking at a story in the "History" section of the Bible. In this part of the Bible people do lots of dumb things. This is a problem for God, who has promised to be faithful. How do we deal with stories of human sin and God's anger? Can we find mercy in them? To help us, we look at the story of David and Nathan...