Brent Ness

Today we begin a new Christian year, a new cycle of grace. After a week of horrible, hateful senseless shootings, targeting the LGBTQIA community…

What always strikes me about the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is how mystified the righteous ‘sheep’ are at the praise from Jesus?

Whenever I read this week’s passage from Mark, I can’t help but notice the effort of the friends of the paralyzed man to get him to Jesus. Long walk?

With these words Jesus shows us that life stretches on after death. And so, we come to All Saints Sunday secure in the knowledge that all those imperfect saints…

Poor Zacchaeus, if we know anything about him it’s this: the dude was short. He was ‘short in stature’. And evidently he was a bit short on ethics as well…

To know something by feeling it in your body — something we all experience but we don’t all talk about.

  An Impatient Persistence Sunday, October 16 at 11 am | Bulletin “Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.” Luke 18:1 Jesus came to teach us to love, to save us from ourselves, and to announce the web of interconnectedness he called the Kin-dom of God.

Who wouldn’t like a bit more faith? Especially after the past several years, which seemed to require every scrap of faith we could muster.

Welcome Back Sunday! You are cordially invited to a celebration of God’s abundant love and extravagant welcome.

Lots of news lately concerning something near and dear to many: our jobs! We hear about ‘quiet quitting’ (which is, basically, doing but not overdoing your job).