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It goes without saying that Easter is a joyous day for church people. On Easter morning the music is marvelous and the room is full. Toddlers are dressed in special Easter outfits that are super cute…as long as you don’t know was required to get them on. Brunch plans and egg hunts are at the […]
Throughout human history, there are countless examples of strongly held beliefs that have to be reexamined. You know the kind of things I’m talking about: We once believed that the world was flat and the Earth is in the middle of things. We once took it as a given that one human being may own […]
I was talking with a friend this week, a dad like me, who has become very frustrated lately by something quite simple; he cannot get his young son to sit down and go to the bathroom. Any of you in the room who are parents can relate to the daily struggles to get kids to […]
I am a guest at a couple of Iftars this month. The Iftar is Muslim tradition of breaking of the daily fast at the end of each day of Ramadan. This year for the first time in decades Ramadan coincides with the Christian season of Lent, and both of our traditions engage in a season […]
In the 1990s, a biblical scholar named Marcus Borg wrote an incredibly popular book—by which I mean that it flew off the shelf at Barnes’ and Noble (when that was a thing)… He called Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. In its opening chapter Borg describes a journey many of us can relate to: He […]
Today is our Annual Meeting as a congregation. I always resist talking about church for its own sake. I suspect you are here not to preserve the church but because of the life and work to which Jesus Christ calls us. The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church says much the same thing among its very […]
There’s something going on these days that I probably don’t mention out loud as often as I should. I know many of you are staying up at night these days or waking up in the morning with a troubling sense that things are not the way they are supposed to be. You are scared, or […]
For those of you who were not here with us last week, we are entering into a series of sermons this winter and spring about core Christian beliefs, exploring what Christians here at Knox believe about God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Last week we looked at the core convictions about God expressed in […]
It’s an interesting time in our culture and country to be Christian. After decades of significant decline in church and secularization in wider culture, research suggests that the trends are reversing. Young people, especially, are finding their way back to church; much of the greatest growth is happening in traditional liturgical environments like Catholicism and […]
