This month, we had the chance to revisit one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture - Psalm 23 - and to try to hear it again as if for the first time. Most of us know this psalm well. Many have it memorized. We’ve heard it at funerals. We associate it with quiet, reflective moments at the end of life. But Psalm 23 was not written for the dead. It was written for the living. For people walking through uncertainty, fear, pressure, and, at times, real darkness. This summer, the...

Easter is not the story of people who believed too easily. It's the story of people who didn’t believe at all. Our Easter Tavern Talk walked us through the surprising, even jarring reality at the heart of the resurrection story: nobody was expecting it. Not the disciples. Not the women. Not the religious leaders. Not Rome. If anything, every group involved was operating with the same basic assumption: death means the end. And then, something happened. The talk began at the cross, where the...

This Sunday we sat with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane - the space between the Last Supper and the Cross, between knowing what is coming and having to walk toward it. We began with a simple but painful reality: sometimes we pray with all the faith we have, and the outcome does not change. The "thing" remains. Many of us know what it feels like to sit in our own “garden” praying for healing, restoration, relief, clarity and feeling as though God has gone quiet. Not necessarily losing...