Near the end of this service, we will partake of Communion together. Please prepare your elements (bread/cracker and juice/wine) before beginning our worship se...
If Christmas is about anything, it certainly isn’t glamour and glitz. It’s about Christ coming for lowly sinners as a lowly, sinless babe. The child laid humbly...
Don't wish anyone a "Merry Christmas" yet. It isn't Christmas. You'd be more accurate to offer a "Happy New Year!" than a "Merry Christmas." You might get weird...
What makes you joyful?
This being the third week of Advent, Joy Sunday, we were naturally talking about joy. It’s one of those things that the apostle Paul t...
Thank you for the courage and vulnerability to read this. When you’re hurting and it feels like everyone else is happy, it often feels easier to just shut down ...
We’ve arrived at the second week of Advent, the time of year we prepare our hearts for the coming of the Messiah at Christmas. This week we’re talking about hop...
Let's face it, we live in a love-saturated culture. Everywhere you turn you see television shows, movies, magazines, books, and other products all designed to g...
Advent is a five-part Christmas devotional from Chaplain Chris Linzey. To download, click here.
Let's face it, we live in a love-saturated culture. Everywh...
It was the Sunday before Thanksgiving week. Henry, a caring minister, had just closed out the morning service and was standing at the church door greeting and s...
As I was saying, losing your house before Christmas…is not something I'd recommend.
Yet it does have its upside...
It was the Christmas right after the economy...
I don’t remember where I first read the story, but it was probably in one of my mother’s old Ideals magazines. They had glossy covers, harder than standard pap...
I was at Capitol Grille being treated to lunch by a dear friend. He’d just paid the check, and our waiter was saying thanks. “You two gentlemen have a merry...