One of the great temptations of ministry is measuring yourself, your ministry, or your church against what others – friends, colleagues,...

So what does all of this mean? We continue in Christmastide until Epiphany on January 6, but what was it all for? The months of planning...

“And the Word became flesh.” (John 1:14). Five words that utterly change everything. And the Word became flesh. And the Word became...

Advent is a time of preparation. John the Baptist sets this anticipatory tone when he says in Matthew 3 (NRSVUE), “Prepare the way of the...

We are all familiar with the story of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts. If we shut our eyes and pictured them, I would imagine we...

A strength of the connectional nature of the church is the benefit of the outside perspe ctive. We are not left to our own devices. We...

I wrote a few weeks ago about the profound impact that Frederick Beuchner had on the church. His death reminded many of his influence....

Frederick Buechner died at the age of 96 on Monday. Many will not recognize the name, but most preachers and careful listeners of sermons...

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what...

By the time you read this, $1,000 Coordinating Council Ministry Challenge checks, along with a letter from the Coordinating Council, will...

As Tulsa joins the growing list of communities rocked by gun violence and mass casualty events, the members and churches of Eastern...

In this time after Easter, it is fitting to dwell on the call to ministry.

With the dramatic drop in Covid-19 cases/deaths in recent weeks across Oklahoma and new guidelines relaxing mask mandates nationally, I...

Whether you like Tom Brady or not, there is no denying that he is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in professional football. He is a...

I love words: spoken words and written words. Much of my life as a minister is about words. I write thousands of words each week for...

The story of Christmas is really many stories of Christ’s birth. Matthew’s gospel contains the conception of the baby Jesus by the Holy...

God who sees me, You are omniscient and omnipotent and yet you see my trials and my struggles. You walk with me and I lean on you. You...

A heartbreaking letter was recently found at a local ballpark. Written across three notecards, the letter reads as a desperate plea. It...

The story goes that as Harvard University added buildings around the famous Harvard Yard through the 19th century that they did not...

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3 begins, but do we truly believe that? We...