Category Archives: Discipleship

No room in the Inn

We are in the midst of doing VBS at the congregation I serve.  Yesterdays scripture passage was Luke 2:1-20, the birth of Jesus. Now this is a story most of us hear year after year, because those of us who go to churches that follow the Revised Common Lectionary use this set of verses every Christmas Eve.Continue reading “No room in the Inn”

Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Can you imagine if all of our confirmation was done this way?  Can you imagine if the seeds of faith were planted each and every night at home?  Can you imagine if our youth came to know the church as a loving welcome place,Continue reading “Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Rich Melheim is a great thinker and model for the church.  He always seems to be on the pulse of what is happening, and trying to help us all think about ways to look at the glass and how full it is, or to break freeContinue reading “The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com

Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com. What does this say about how we are as the church?  Do we want to stick with the things we have always known and dumb it down because we think visitors and some members may not actually get it… Are weContinue reading “Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com”

The home as the basis of faith!

Here is a quote from Rich Melheim’s blog I found very interesting: “For those of you heaven-bent on changing the dying mainline before it turns into a flatline… For those of you hoping to reform your church to look less like the last chapter of American Christianity and more like Deuteronomy 6 (when you lieContinue reading “The home as the basis of faith!”

I am caught on the blue apple

One of my professors from seminary preached at a classmates wedding and had a blue apple.  This blue apple is the long sought after treasure, you search and search and once you find it, put it away for no one to see, and so it does not get damaged. And that is what we as Christians do…Continue reading “I am caught on the blue apple”