Last week my family and I snowshoed into a high country yurt above Idaho City. We loaded two days worth of food, clothes, and bedding on...

Ours is a lifestyle faith, a faith that acts. Well, actually, ours is a faith that responds… with actions. God’s outpouring of love is...

During Lent, we own the ways that we have caused rupture in our relationship with God — by disregarding God, by ignoring those God loves,...

All relationship have RUPTURES, those conflicts large and small that hurt or diminish. All relationships that last have REPAIRS, those...

All relationship have RUPTURES, those conflicts large and small that hurt or diminish. All relationships that last have REPAIRS, those...

They say that people have greater doubt in God today than ever before. But I wonder if doubt isn’t new, only the way we talk about it. ...

Welcoming God with open arms changes us. Accepting the love of God, and coming to trust that love, softens our hearts and our attitudes....

Scripture is full of people being afraid and being told, “don’t be afraid.” What was so frightening about God? Why does God bless the...

Scripture is full of people being afraid and being told, “don’t be afraid.” What was so frightening about God? In the last 1000 years (a...

Our ancient Christian creeds refer to God as “Almighty,” meaning all-powerful, omnipotent, supreme. However, I think that way we...

Two years ago, if anybody had told you that outdoor worship would be happening EVERY Sunday, you’d be sure they were crazy! Adding indoor...

I have always thought of winter as a time of silence, stillness, even death. The sun sinks down in the south as it gets good and cold....

This Sunday we will hear the Luke text on the baptism of Jesus. Traditionally baptism has been understood to clean away our sin and to...

On Christmas Eve we’ll gather to mark the end of Advent and the beginning of the Christmas season — twelve days of celebration!! We’ll...

As the wind blew through Kuna this week, our advent cloth got whipped around the cross. It seemed to suffer in solidarity with many who...

Last week we explored spending less during this Advent season. With such worldly encouragement to spend and spend and spend, leading to...

Our children put on a wonderful living nativity with llamas from Ginny & Ken Greger demonstrating how managers work (see the llama...

We are getting ready, waiting, and turns our eyes to Jesus. At Christmas we celebrate that God became one of us and we wait to celebrate....

Christmas is coming and we all know it. (My neighbor has their tree up already. Crazy.) We’ve got four weeks to get ready. There are...

We are worshipping outside because of COVID, but something unexpected is happening. While most churches are currently reporting Sunday...