To Be Together
You’ve probably heard phrases such as, “We’re better together” or “Two is better than one.” In fact, I’ve preached those exact ideas. The...
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- Aug 29
Olympic National Park
Our final stop of our summer road trip takes us to the West Coast, and to Olympic National Park. Olympic National Park is the park that...
- Aug 22
Gates of the Artic
You can fly in, hike in, or “mush in,” but you cannot drive in! Gates of the Arctic National Park is inside the Arctic Circle, making it...
- Aug 15
A Trip to Canyonlands
Considered one of the least accessible parks in the continental United States, Canyonlands National Park offers a wilderness of countless...
- Aug 8
Glacier National Park
Our summer road trip brings us a little closer to home, to Glacier National Park. It’s a place that many consider holy ground, or a thin...
- Aug 1
Mammoth Cave National Park
When visitors arrive at Mammoth Cave National Park, in southern Kentucky, their first views are of dense stands of eastern hardwood...
- Jul 25
Zion National Park
Zion National Park will forever hold a special place in my heart. It was the first national park that I remember visiting (my parents...
- Jul 18
The Grand Tetons
You will never see mountains rise so abruptly, so unbelievably, so imposingly, as the Grand Tetons, the forty-mile-long-range reaching...
- Jul 11
Joshua Tree National Park
At first glance, Joshua Tree National Park appears to be one of the most barren places imaginable. The sandy soil, baked in the summer...
- Jul 3
The Majestic Grand Canyon
Life in Grand Canyon National Park is by any measure big (or grand, you might say). It doesn’t matter if you measure by the antlers of...
- Jun 27
Rocky Mountain National Park
At Rocky Mountain National Park, rugged scenery is guaranteed. Meadows, forests, and lakes butt up against a backdrop of sheer cliffs and...
- Jun 20
The Great Smoky Mountains
The misty haze that often covers high peaks and settles in valleys gives the Great Smoky Mountains their name. Heavily forested hills...
- Jun 13
The First National Park - Yellowstone
As we continue our summer road trip, we come a little closer to home, to Yellowstone National Park. Located in parts of Wyoming, Montana,...
- Jun 6
Off to Sequoia National Park
We’re on the road again, heading to California! Specifically, to Sequoia National Park, which is known for its giant trees. Some would...
- May 30
Summer Road Trip
I used to collect beanie babies. In fact, as my dad recently discovered, I have three entire tubs of them. But one particular memory of...
- May 23
A Psalm of Praise
As we near the end of our sermon series “There’s a Psalm for That,” we come to one of the more familiar psalms. The joyous praise of...
- May 16
God’s breath or spirit is what animates all of life.
Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples sounding something like a mighty...
- May 9
There is a Prayer for When Everything is Falling Apart
The prayers of lament are the prayers of darkness. Theologian Barbara Brown Taylor defines darkness as “everything I do not know, cannot...
- May 2
The Prayerbook of the Bible
If you have ever tried to read your way through the psalms, beginning with Psalm 1 and ending with Psalm 150, you might be surprised....
- Apr 25
God is a Forgiving God
In the Ancient Near East, the world from which the Bible emerged, successive cultures built cities on top of the ruins of old ones....
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