This week we're starting a new series for Advent. I've entitled it "Unexpected Joy: A Christmas with Jonah." This is not your typical Advent story. And that's because Jonah is a story of great fear (both good and bad), great humility (both real and fake), great sorrow (for good and bad reasons), and great repentance (both true and false). It's a story about a great fish an...
Keep ReadingWe are wrapping up our series on misunderstood stories of the Bible this week. Next week, we'll be jumping into our Advent series in Jonah. It's hard to believe that we're already at Advent. In some ways, this year has dragged on and on due to the pandemic. In other ways, it's flown by. As we enter the holiday season which is full of thankfulness and joy, I think it is fit...
Keep ReadingPastoralLetterfor a Distributed Church November 20, 2020 Dear friends, It's been two months since my last letter and we're finishing up our sermon series on "Misused Stories of the Bible." We've looked at Cain, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, Naaman, Daniel, Judas, The Lord's Supper, the Adulterous Woman, The Rich Fool, and Rev. Wang will finish up with Zacchaeus.I hop...
Keep ReadingThis week we'll be going through another familiar story, commonly known as "The Parable of the Rich Fool." This is a story of a man who interrupted Jesus as He was teaching, demanding that He decide a dispute in this man's favor. Jesus gave what appears to be a blistering response, followed by this parable, which surely would have humiliated the man. So, what subject so r...
Keep ReadingThis week we'll be going through another familiar story, except this one isn't misused in how it's interpreted, but more often than not, in how it's applied. We'll be looking at the well-known story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8:1-11. This, of course, is the story of a woman who's used by the Pharisees to trap Jesus into breaking the Old Testament Law. It's a s...
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