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This week I had a revelation, epiphany, and light bulb moment.  I received a new insight into the dirty little “e” word: evangelism. On Tuesday morning while walking up Baynard Boulevard a woman stopped to ask me why our trees were wrapped in colorful cloths.  My explanation about our focus on the stewardship of creation […]

In our Presbyterian tradition we have two sacraments: baptism and communion.  We recognize them because we believe these are the two that Jesus experienced and commended to his disciples. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water!  What is to prevent me from […]

Being is a household with two working parents who often work evenings is a challenge to full family time.  One of the great blessings that has been born in our home in response to this challenge is “boys night out”.  As much as we miss mom and partner, such evenings have become a special tradition.  […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it… Psalm 24:1 Creation is God’s original and greatest act and gift: dark & light, sea & sky, plant & creature, and us humans.  After making it all, God deemed it good.  God then gave us the charge, power, […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and one soul…but everything they owned was held in common. Acts 4:32 Dear Hanover Saints, The Psalmist writes: How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! (133:1).  Those in the Resurrection’s first generation […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION In four days were the sum and the source of faith for the first disciples. On Thursday they shared a meal with Him. They were blessed and bewildered On Friday they watched Him die. They were shocked and abandoned. On Sunday they raced to a tomb looking for […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION Hosanna in the highest heaven! Mark 11:10 Dear Hanover Saints, For the Israelites Hosanna was a distress signal; it was their S.O.S.  In Hebrew Hosanna means “O save!”  When the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday they were begging and pleading to be saved.  They were in need of healing […]

Dear Hanover Saints, In 2002 Bruce Springsteen released an album in tribute to those who sacrificed themselves in the September 11, 2001 attacks.  He named the album “The Rising”, offering musical hope that life would emerge from the ashes of the World Trade Centers.  The second song is “Into the Fire”… The sky was falling […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God – not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 Dear Hanover Saints, In the heart of the wilderness Satan tempts Jesus […]