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Between Sundays

Between Sundays – “Easter in October” Every year when Easter rolls around, we proclaim it with trumpets, lilies, and joyful shouts: “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!” But what I love about the Easter story is that it doesn’t end with an empty tomb. It begins...

Between Sundays

Between Sundays – “Easter in October” Every year when Easter rolls around, we proclaim it with trumpets, lilies, and joyful shouts: “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!” But what I love about the Easter story is that it doesn’t end with an empty tomb. It begins...

Between Sundays

Between Sundays: The Stories Jesus Told This past Sunday we explored how Jesus often chose to teach in parables, short, simple stories that carry deep truths about God’s kingdom. Parables are not always easy to grasp on the first hearing; they ask us to listen...

Between Sundays: Love. Hope. Jesus. This week I had the joy (and maybe a little too much fun) of updating our church sign for the very first time. No one has ever thought it a good idea to give me access to a church sign before! I admit I was tempted to change it to:...

Between Sundays

Between Sundays Dear Calvary Family, As your new senior pastor, now just a couple months into this journey with you, I’ve been listening deeply. Listening to your hopes, your stories, your questions, your convictions. I’ve also been walking alongside our Reconciling...

Between Sundays

Between Sundays: Love. Hope. Jesus.   As September begins, Calvary is stepping into a new season of ministry. Children are returning to classrooms, backpacks are being blessed, and our building is filling with life and energy once again. Fall brings a natural...

Between Sundays: Sustaining Grace

Between Sundays: Sustaining Grace   This past Sunday we blessed backpacks, students, teachers, and all who are beginning a new school year. We prayed over not just supplies and classrooms, but the lives and hopes they represent, each one a seed planted with...

Between Sundays: From Planting to Building

Between Sundays: From Planting to Building   “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.” Philippians 1:9a   Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked about seeds, about planting with hope,...