06/24/2024
This is a prayer that Pastor Aj wanted to pray yesterday but ran short of time to do.
Read the prayer here:
06/18/2024
Comedian Turns Snarky Reply into Generosity
Here is an illustration that I wanted to include this past Sunday but ran out of time.
06/11/2024
A Word From My New Research Assistant
Being able to forgive ourselves—our ability to allow God’s amazing grace to uncover, weed out, and heal our guilt and shame—is never easy, but it is critical to our growth as children of God. The following is what the new, improved ChatGBT came up with in terms of articles online that might help—at least in a secular, psychological context. Go ahead and click on the links if you want to follow up.
06/03/2024
Anger: It’s Worse Than You Think
You can’t be a faithful practitioner of Christianity if you don’t keep a tight rein on your words and how you share them with others.
Archived Posts
Back and Forth with Chat GPT
Many of you know that I’ve found a new consultant to bounce my ideas off in regard to preaching. My good buddy Chat GPT and I sometimes disagree—often miscommunicate—but usually come up with some fruitful illustrations.
One More Thing About Becoming Wholly Human
I was talking Sunday about the work of Hare and Woods and their idea of ‘the survival of the friendliest.’ Essentially, they conclude that “our greatest evolutionary advantage wasn't that we could do everything ourselves. It was that we could do things together.”
Here’s a preview of our congregation’s Core Values
In the coming weeks we will be exploring the importance of presence, prayers, gifts, service, witness, and growth in grace. These are at the heart of what we commit to when we join a Wesleyan grace-led church like ours. But we choose to broaden them out and state them in a new way…
The Biblical prayer we don’t know what to do with
Psalm 137 is written by people who have experienced catastrophic loss.
They have been conquered...
Patience and Trust
Sunday, in my benediction (which traditional folks did not hear) I talked about the Marshmallow Test. The original results of that test with children was that those who could delay gratification did better in life than those who could not.