Imagine the scene, Jesus and the disciples are walking through the villages of Caesarea Phillip, when Jesus asks them a question. “Who do...

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...

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...

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...

Considered one of the least accessible parks in the continental United States, Canyonlands National Park offers a wilderness of countless...

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...

When visitors arrive at Mammoth Cave National Park, in southern Kentucky, their first views are of dense stands of eastern hardwood...

Zion National Park will forever hold a special place in my heart. It was the first national park that I remember visiting (my parents...

You will never see mountains rise so abruptly, so unbelievably, so imposingly, as the Grand Tetons, the forty-mile-long-range reaching...

At first glance, Joshua Tree National Park appears to be one of the most barren places imaginable. The sandy soil, baked in the summer...

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...

At Rocky Mountain National Park, rugged scenery is guaranteed. Meadows, forests, and lakes butt up against a backdrop of sheer cliffs and...

The misty haze that often covers high peaks and settles in valleys gives the Great Smoky Mountains their name. Heavily forested hills...

As we continue our summer road trip, we come a little closer to home, to Yellowstone National Park. Located in parts of Wyoming, Montana,...

We’re on the road again, heading to California! Specifically, to Sequoia National Park, which is known for its giant trees. Some would...

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...

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...

Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples sounding something like a mighty...

The prayers of lament are the prayers of darkness. Theologian Barbara Brown Taylor defines darkness as “everything I do not know, cannot...

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....