by gardenspres | Nov 3, 2015
Last week in our Bible study we read together Mark 4:35-5:20 when Jesus miraculously calms the rough sea and casts out a legion of demons from a man who has spent years banished from his community and living in a cemetery. I’ve read these stories hundreds of times,...
by gardenspres | Oct 8, 2015
Confession time again…I’m a pretty hopelessly cheesy person! One way this “cheese” manifest itself occurs during birthday celebrations when I ask folks to reflect on the year past and to share the greatest blessings and greatest difficulties and to share their hopes...
by gardenspres | Sep 17, 2015
Last week we began a new sermon series called, “The Mission of God.” This series is drawn from the Theological and Biblical studies of Christopher Wright. In his book, The Mission of God, Wright provides a “missional hermeneutic” that unlocks and traces God’s...
by gardenspres | Sep 10, 2015
So…there’s a joke and goes something like this… There’s this guy who is living in his house when all of a sudden it starts to rain and rain and rain, and suddenly he realizes the waters outside his house are rising and there is a dramatic flood. As the waters rise in...
by gardenspres | Aug 24, 2015
I’ll begin with a confession. It is my intention to write more than once a month on this blog! I’m shooting for once a week, but I’m still settling into the rhythms of this new call – so thanks for your patience with me as I slowly figure out the blend of reading,...
