Can I be forgiven for my sins? Will I find the gates of heaven opened to me? Do these questions sound familiar to you?

What would Jesus think of how our capital-C church is set up? Would he turn tables and wield a whip because of these vast injustices?

In a sinful world, living the values Jesus taught us, living with integrity, often leads to suffering.

Lent not about intentionally suffering. It’s not about depriving yourself for the sake of Jesus. It’s about noticing.

As we grapple with the mysteries of faith, let us embrace the humility that comes from acknowledging the limits of our comprehension.

It is in the space between facts, between what we can prove, where hope lives. It is in what we don’t quite know.

Faith is not about what you know, it’s about how you love.

Here then are three things that have helped me to get started on the journey of really knowing others and being known by them.

Jesus taught us that where there is sickness, sin, or conflict, there is the potential for relationship, for creation, for love.

Everything was made at God’s command. He spoke and it happened.

Through Jesus, God understands the experience of our vulnerability, our fears, our hopes. Not only God with us, but God becoming us.

It seems to me that our God is a God of misfit toys. Choosing an unwed teenage girl to be the mother of Jesus.

We must continue to prepare the way of the Lord, knowing we receive forgiveness even before we ask, we are fully and completely loved.

Keeping awake is anticipating and looking for God, even when life is darkest. Staying on the lookout for the seed of hope buried within.

Jim Hart and Debbie Kohler share their Gratitude Thoughts.

We need you to risk sharing who you are, your talents and your joy, so that you can grow into what you’re becoming.

I invite you to think of your pledge as a demonstration of how you will steward the resources God has entrusted to you.

Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read.

We are like trees planted by streams of water. Love, Jesus tells us, is our root. But what is it that nourishes that love?

Someone who loves you, as you are, before you’ve changed, gives you a new name, and sees a life for you that you cannot imagine for yourself