“In our current message series we are looking at what we are calling “breathing room.” This weekend we want to get to the root cause of our problems when it comes to our struggle with breathing room. Why do we gravitate towards a lifestyle that drowns out breathing room? It’s true: Modern life pushes us […]
“Probably the most famous parable, or story of Jesus comes in Luke’s Gospel and begins like this: A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, “Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.” So the father divided the property between them. Luke 15.11-12 More shocking than […]
“Pope Francis’ blockbuster interview this week pointedly rejects a Church of “small-minded rules.” He said we cannot make the Universal Church a “nest for our own mediocrity.” He said a great many other things as well, including the comment that much of the Church’s civic discourse has become “obsessed” with homosexuality and gay marriage. And […]
“This weekend is kick off weekend, one of my favorite of the whole year. All our kids and student programs are back in full swing, lots of fun stuff on the front plaza, all new music and a brand new message series called Breathing Room. Breathing room is the gap between our current pace and […]
Let’s face it, Catholics are largely ignorant of the Bible. It’s a sad fact, but a true one. It’s not their fault though. It’s the fault of parish priests and church leaders reaching back generations. It’s the fault of the whole Counter-Reformation approach to Scripture that has characterized the Catholic Church for hundreds of years. […]
“I suppose the title of my friend Patrick Lencioni’s book (see above) came to mind because I just spent the better part of today in a meeting. It was a staff meeting, with our senior team, to discuss a reorganization of our team and some of our meetings. Now I will be the first to […]
“How many of you have ever had a job that you hated? How many of you have ever had a dumb job? How many of you have ever been working at something and it just felt like a complete waste of time? Probably every single one of us, at some point or another would have […]
“The year we first went to the Maryland State Fair for Christmas Eve we were motivated as much by the parking lot as we were by the additional seats we could provide. To introduce the congregation to the idea of moving our Christmas celebration we filmed a video in which two of our high school […]
“For our regulars at Church of the Nativity or on-line, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been speaking much this summer, and by “much” I mean, not at all. So maybe you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to. Well, I did take a couple of weekends off for vacation, of course. But mostly, I […]
” When I came to you brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God… I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the […]
