Bringing Our Best to the Lord

Matthew 2: 1-12 Steve Lindsley I have an old seminary friend who keeps a stash of birthday cards in her desk drawer – that way, when a friend’s birthday slips up on her, she doesn’t have to make a mad dash to the store.  I personally like this idea –...

A Feast of Light

Steve Lindsley Isaiah 9: 2,6 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined. For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named...

Canticles of Advent: Filled Up

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Luke 1:46 – 55 Each year we hang stockings, light candles, purchase gorgeous wrapping paper and tie each red bow tight. We embrace the beauty and the sentiment of this Season of Waiting, sometimes forgetting the...

Canticles of Advent: Raised Up

Steve Lindsley Luke 1: 68-79 Have you ever had a song get stuck in your head?  The melody so catchy and a hook so irresistible that it will not let you go. The lyrics, clear as day, looping endlessly in your brain, long after the music itself has faded into the...

Canticles of Advent: Lifted Up

Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Psalm 25:1-10; Luke 21: 26-35 It’s the first time I traveled out on my own in the capital city of Lusaka, Zambia. A bustling city with people selling their goods, traveling to work, building walls and businesses....

Not the Embrace of Retribution, but a Commitment to Justice

Steve Lindsley Selected Verses: John 8: 2-11 I’ve shared before some of the stories in A.J. Jacob’s best-selling book The Year of Living Biblically. You might recall this book recounts A.J.’s year-long journey to follow the Bible as literally as possible –...