Sermon Archive (Page 2)

When I was a pediatric hospital chaplain, I spent many hours each day witnessing the exhaustion of families who had children in the hospital. You could see it in the way their bodies drooped under the mental, emotional, and physical distress of watching their child struggle, while also running the costs through their heads. Because we were a level 1 trauma center, and the…

This past week, I was in Columbus, Ohio, for the kickoff of this year’s age Age to Age program. As I explained a bit in the Messenger, Age to Age is focused on creating spaces of intergenerational belonging and inclusion, grounded in who we understand God to be. As their mission statement for this year best describes, “Cohort 3 of the Age to Age Initiative exists to…

Growing up, I never quite understood that a lot of families aren’t as big as mine. I don’t mean in the immediate family sense, since it was just my parents, sister, and I. But, on my dad’s side, I am in the middle of twelve grandkids and now 8 great-grandkids. We weren’t always together, but when we were, you can rest assured that us kids would be running around, making…