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Just Ask Brandon Marshall
Matthew 20:1-16 I don't usually offer commentary on the sermons I deliver to churches I serve. But this sermon starts slowly and not particularly well, and there's a reason for that. Fred Craddock, one of the great preachers and teacher of preachers in the United States, tells us that certain sermons should be preached from […]
Presidential Debates
As I sat down to watch the debates last night, and saw the eager facebook and twitter posts from friends hosting parties and debate drinking games, I remembered what it was like when election season was all about the game of the election to me. I still have friends who recognize that their lives will […]
On the end of a ministry
This time last year, I was anxiously awaiting the final say on whether I'd be hired as a campus minister (I wasn't really sure until late July, and even then there was some ambiguity as to the length of my service). Anxious partly because this seemed like the only ministry work that I seemed likely […]
Memorial Day
Remember the dead. But remember them in life. It is easy to sum up a man's life by his method of death, but each soldier who died had a life in the service and prior to the service. And it is the absence of those lives that tears at the fabric of our own lives […]
Missions
[written while on mission, edited afterward. This was originally the second of two postings] Thursday night, on the eve of our departure from our mission site. I am feeling even more ersatz Baptist than usual, as our Cooperative Baptist Fellowship mission group now consists of two ELCA Lutherans and a UCC minister playing a Baptist […]