Just the Crumbs, Jesus?

Steve Lindsley Matthew 15: 1-9, 21-28 (Selected Verses) A few years back, a pastor colleague of mine gave me the best advice when it comes to preaching: our job, he said, is not to tell people what to think, but what to think about. Not what to think, but what to...

The Mantle’s Questions

Steve Lindsley 2 Kings 2: 1-15 The two journey together, as they’d been doing for a while now. They go wherever God leads them. And when they go, they go together. Mentor and pupil, seasoned veteran and young protege. They’ve done this enough times that it feels...

Like a Mustard Seed

Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell Mark 4: 26 – 34 (Selected Verses) The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain (you know it, it’s the giant basilica) is a spectacle, a one-of-a-kind structure like you’ve never seen. It was designed by the famous architect, Antoni Gaudi, a true...

Preparing for Gratitude

Steve Lindsley Matthew 22: 1-14 (Selected Verses) Today’s parable is a weird parable.  A very weird parable.  There is a reason you probably don’t recall this parable from your Sunday school class or Bible study: it’s routinely skipped over for better-known and...

You Could Really Use a Break!

Steve Lindsley Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 2: 23-28 (Selected Verses) This past week marks the first year that Tam has been with the Lindsleys.  Tam is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier that came home with Lorie from Animal Control one day because, to put it somewhat tactfully,...

Be Curious and Be Yourself

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 You’ve heard me share this story before. In her book, Breathing Space, Heidi Neumark writes about her friend, Miss Ellie. Miss Ellie lives on John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina on a small dirt road in a...