So much of what I do on a weekly basis revolves around the Bible. I’d like to believe that it also shapes who I am as a person. So I was...

Check out the basketball court at the back of our west parking lot! A lot of folks in and around Manchaca have grown up playing on that...

I recently attended a webinar on effective ministry during and after the pandemic. I thought the speaker had a very interesting analogy...

I recently read Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s discussion of the ancient rabbinic practice of fasting from speaking. Some rabbis would go for...

This past Sunday I spoke about having the courage to follow your call. For most of us the road to that Courage will begin with the first...

Last Sunday I talked about resilience in the sermon. Most definitions of resilience include both strength and flexibility as keys to...

As you may be aware we are currently in the midst of a sermon series on “The Call to Courage.” Two things motivated me to choose courage...

Our forty third president famously added a word to our language- “misunderesimate.” He may have coined it, but during COVID 19 I have...

As we draw near to the end of our series on doubt, I am hoping that you have realized that doubt is normal and that it usually is not a...

These are not the best of times for the church in America. Every year more than 2.5 million people leave the church. Often church is...

Both of my grandsons enjoy building things with Lego blocks. My younger grandson, however, does not like his Lego towers to fall down. He...

Isadore Rabi is one of many great intellectuals to have come from the Jewish faith. He won a Nobel Prize in physics. He later attributed...

Christmas is a time for peace. The angels sang of ‘peace on earth’ to the shepherds while the prophet Isaiah called the coming Messiah...

"Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you." Zechariah 9:12 This...

With my previous two articles on hope as waiting on a prison door to open and hope as singing the tune even you don’t know and can’t...

This week I listened to a podcast about hope featuring the brilliant Yale theologian, Miroslav Volf. Not surprisingly he referenced...

As we enter Advent this Sunday, I think of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his friend, Eberhard, in 1943 from his prison cell: “Life in...

While Diana Butler Bass was working on her book, Grateful, her husband gave her a purple baseball cap which said, “Make America Grateful...

On Saturday May 24, 1738, in an evening prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley felt his heart “strangely warmed.” Had...

Diana Butler Bass in her excellent book Grateful observes that our nation with its division and many social problems looks like a...