For most of the Christian world, we are in the midst of what is known as Holy Week. It is the week that begins with Palm Sunday and culminates with Easter. It commemorates the last week in the life of Jesus. But the Holy Week depicted in the Bible wasn’t a celebration. It was a […]
Category: Church topics
This is the category where the blog posts I write inspired by stuff from my little church ends up. Most are inspired by sermons I have heard or things the church is doing.
Beautiful messes
Many of us have been called labels instead of names. Self-centered. Narcissist. Radical. Socialist. Sinner. Dumb ass. Stupid. Selfish. Crazy. We carry these labels, shouldering them alongside the weight of all that we are, all that we need to do, all that we have to be. Sometimes, we carry so much weight and have so […]
Striving for the perfect????
Soulmates. Everyone searches for one at some point in their lives. They cast their nets amongst the sea, hoping to catch the one “fish” they are destined for. But then they question every date – is this one right for me? Is this one I can see myself spending a life with? Is this one […]
Love thine enemy
It is super hard to be nice to people who are mean to us. Ask any person who works in customer service or retail and they will tell you so, since they are expected to be friendly even as anger and vitriol and snide comments are thrown their way. Between the entitlement stories and the […]
Blessed are….
In my fantastical adventurous Portals Series, there is an enemy to magic. It is not dark magic, for even sorcery has a place in my fictionalized world of portals and realms even as some look down their nose at it. It is rather an ideal, an entity called evil. Evil is twisted, created from the […]
Recognition
This past Sunday, the tables in the narthex of one of the local churches in my little swath of the Midwest were full of people enjoying camaraderie and some scrumptious cheesecake and coffees. They all had something in common…. they all had volunteered to make this little swath of the Midwest a better place for […]
Is it lawful to do good?
“Jesus said to them, ‘I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?” Luke 6:9 (NRSV) In the Christian Bible, Jesus spoke this after being questioned why he was healing a man on the day of rest. Those questioning him […]
Do small things with great love
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, known as a day of love. It was also Ash Wednesday, the start of a season of sacrifice, a time of intentions and reflection. The juxtaposition of these two days together may seem strange. But really, it’s not. One story states that Saint Valentine was martyred for being a Christian priest or bishop […]
Revealed…. or not…. we continue to write the story
Apocalyptic. That is one word that brings terror to some. After all, the apocalypse, according to the Christian Bible, is the final destruction of the world. Numerous people have predicted this event. Many have failed. But the word doesn’t mean all of this trepidation and finality. It doesn’t even have to be a scary word, even though it is. The […]
Crossing the wilderness
Temptation. First thing that comes to mind for me when I hear that word is that its the brand name of my cats’ favorite treats. But it also is woven into the fabric of our lives. Everywhere we look, there is something to tempt us. We are tempted by stuff we should not be eating. We are tempted by […]
K. S. Wood Writes 