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Pastor Chris
Oct 16, 20192 min read
October 16, 2019
"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight." (Luke 12:6). I'm in Kansas City, MO, right...
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Pastor Chris
Oct 9, 20192 min read
October 9, 2019
"Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners” (Matthew 9:13)....
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Pastor Chris
Oct 2, 20192 min read
October 2, 2019
"Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For...
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Pastor Chris
Sep 26, 20192 min read
September 26, 2019
"Why did that madman come to you?" This is the question Jehu's fellow army officers ask in today's Old Testament reading from 2 Kings 9....
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Pastor Chris
Sep 18, 20192 min read
September 18, 2019
Have you ever felt like you're the lone voice speaking up for truth? How can you be confident you're right when hundreds of other voices...
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Pastor Chris
Sep 11, 20192 min read
September 11, 2019
September 11 is remembered as a traumatic day in the history of the United States. A few years after those terrorist attacks, I met a...
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Pastor Chris
Sep 4, 20192 min read
September 4, 2019
As I set out for my pre-dawn run around Berthoud this morning, I tapped play on my phone to listen to today's episode of the "Pray as You...
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Pastor Chris
Aug 28, 20192 min read
August 28, 2019
We all like to feel like we know what we're doing, so it takes great humility to admit when we don't. In today's Old Testament lectionary...
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Pastor Chris
Aug 21, 20193 min read
August 21, 2019
My family and I spent the past two Sundays away on vacation from First Presbyterian Church of Berthoud, but that doesn't mean we took a...
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Pastor Chris
Aug 8, 20192 min read
August 8, 2019
Today's Gospel Reading (Mark 9:2-13) tells about Jesus' Transfiguration. Jesus had taken his disciples Peter, James, and John up to a...
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Pastor Chris
Jul 31, 20192 min read
July 31, 2019
"We beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from...
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Pastor Chris
Jul 25, 20192 min read
July 25, 2019
"Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you....
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Pastor Chris
Jul 18, 20192 min read
July 18, 2019
Yesterday afternoon I sat in a conference room with several colleagues, both elders and pastors, as we tried discern God's will regarding...
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Pastor Chris
Jul 10, 20191 min read
July 10, 2019
In today's Old Testament reading, God tells Samuel that "the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but...
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Pastor Chris
Jul 3, 20192 min read
July 3, 2019
"I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and...
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Pastor Chris
Jul 1, 20192 min read
June 26, 2019
There's an interesting repetition of the word "neglect" in Acts 6. In verse 1, the Greek-speaking believers noticed that their widows...
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Pastor Chris
Jun 19, 20192 min read
June 19, 2019
"I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord; I will remember your wonders of old. I will meditate on all your work and muse on your mighty...
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Pastor Chris
Jun 12, 20192 min read
June 12, 2019
"When Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God...
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Pastor Chris
Jun 5, 20192 min read
June 5, 2019
This coming Sunday is Pentecost, the day when we remember the Holy Spirit descending upon the Apostles and calling together people from...
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Pastor Chris
May 30, 20192 min read
May 29, 2019
This Thursday (May 30) is a lesser known but important holiday in the calendar of the Church:Ascension Day. Forty days after Easter and...
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