This past Sunday, May 25, 2025, Myra guest preached at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (RCL: Year C).
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
This past Sunday, March 16, 2025, I had the privilege of guest preaching at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Second Sunday in Lent (RCL: Year C). They’re a beautiful congregation, intentionally blending charismatic and liturgical/sacramental practices. Their pastor, Scott Crowder, is a great guy and someone I’m blessed to know and call a friend.
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
For the Christian, our hope is not in the secular—albeit with a pseudo-Christian veneer—political system of this country. Presidents, whether Democrat or Republican, will always fail us to one degree or another. None are kings or emperors…just men (and one day women) who happen to have made it to the height of political power.
Regardless, we must not bow to any Caesars. Give them what is theirs, but nothing more because the rest isn’t ours to give away as it’s already spoken for by Christ.
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Measuring our significance, our value, and even our purpose through being needed/wanted by others is as much a genuine struggle as it is a misstep. Truth be told that pursuit is not only fleeting, but it ultimately leads to despair.
The pursuit we should strive, by the power of the Spirit, is to live into the intentional, even irrational, choice to embrace our belovedness in Christ. That decision will make it easier to reorient our sense of value and purpose while thriving in the community of faith. read more…
The worship pastor at the local church that Myra and I attend asked a handful of people to write, and present, a brief thought/meditation and prayer for their annual Stations of the Cross service. I was one of them. She gave me Station #6: Jesus Wears A Crown of Thorns. The following is my contribution to the sorrow of Holy Week. read more…
This past week at the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches / Diocese of the Restoration Holy Convocation, through conversations with my wife and others, something was pointedly revealed to me about how I explain my 2023 journey to others. First, some context…
Right before Lent, it became very obvious to me that, in some ways, I was spiraling downward on a spiritual level as privately I began to become really cynical about the local church, my involvement in her, and ultimately my calling. I came to realize that to bleed on people in a selfless, sacrificial way is an honorable thing; but to bleed on people because of wounds you refuse to acknowledge is selfish and disgusting, and that’s what I was doing. read more…
“[God] said [to Elijah], ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’” – 1 Kings 19:11-13 NRSV
This morning at the local church my wife and I attend, the senior pastor used the above passage for his message, and as I’ve been using NRSV recently, the silence part really popped more than usual this morning.
Sheer silence. read more…
Pioneering is easy when we’re young and courageous (or foolish), and settling becomes easier and safer (or stagnant) the older we get. read more…
