…the master of all I survey My mother just celebrated her 93rd birthday.  She is in stage 4 congestive heart failure.  Scoliosis, along with a raging case of polio as a young [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.”         Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness I’ve always been fascinated by good stories. My favorite assignments in school required decoding a text’s [...]

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the [...]

I was 12 years old when The Omen came out in theaters.  I was too young to watch it in theaters, but I had heard rumblings about the antichrist before. The older kids who [...]

Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in [...]

When I was a child, ballet dancers’ turns — with marvelous names like ‘fouetté’ and ‘pirouette’ — seemed  magical. At some point I learned that a technique, not magic,  made these amazing feats possible.  [...]

I spent my college years at the University of Kansas. The school’s natural history museum is located just behind my old dormitory. One of the museum’s most prominent displays is Comanche, the taxidermied horse [...]