What did you do to celebrate Easter this weekend? I went to Oklahoma. When I found out I wasn’t preaching this Easter (which of course made me sad but is just a par for the course in a free-range pastor life), I knew I needed to do help our family plan something special. I wanted …
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What Life Well Lived Birthed: A Guest Post by Dolly Youssef
Do you believe you’re living a life well lived now? For most of us it’s so easy to ignore, try to skip over or plow through the hard chapters of our lives and not learn the lessons they have for us. But today, Dolly– a friend I met through my pastorate last summer at North …
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The Way God Creates Families
A sermon preached from Ruth 1:1-18 at Springfield Christian Church, Springfield, VA Mother’s Day . . . it’s a day on our calendar much like Christmas or Easter brimming over with sentimentality and expectation, isn’t it? We have in our heads (or least the Hallmark card industry has in our heads) visions of what this day …
To Remember Who You Are
A couple weeks ago with Kevin out of the country for work and no particular geographic place I needed to be I packed up from DC and headed south toward North Carolina. While I was in seminary I worked to keep my student debt at $0 as a student associate pastor at a rural United …
Building Community with the Hagans
At its core, I believe that Christianity is a communal faith. It’s a committment to a lifestyle that none of us can choose to live alone. We need exhortation, correction and support from one another not only to know God more fully, but to stay on the often difficult path we call discipleship. Creating community …
Being Thankful
The countdown is on . . . I have to say that thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday of them all. Some of my most favorite childhood memories were made during thanksgiving extravaganzas planned with my cousin, Ellis, four years my elder (which of course made him extra cool). Those of you who’ve spent Thanksgiving with …
Redefining God as Parent
Our last in the series of “Sermons by Request” continued this morning. Finding out that this was the passage chosen made my head spin a little… I didn’t know what I’d make of such. But in the e d thankful for this week’s theological wrestlings. Romans 1:18-25 One of the most important questions of faith …
No Fear in Love
How hard it is for us strong, “can do anything types” to not be afraid of love! Love given and acknowledged always holds a level of vulnerability that sometimes we simply aren’t willing to show. But, that our souls truly need. This week has been a happy one around our house in particular. In October, there is the …
