by Jon | May 26, 2013 | feat., sermons |
Like most children, I LOVED Saturday morning cartoons. My parents loved them because it bought them a few more precious moments of sleep. I loved them because they were colorful. And entertaining. Every generation had different cartoons that it would watch early on...
by Jon | May 20, 2013 | altars, feat., installations, visual worship, westfield |
It started, like most worship installations at Westfield, with Pintrest. A seminary friend had pinned a craft blog post that gave instructions on how to make a suncatcher-mobile out of melted plastic cups. Among the most striking elements of Westfield are the...
by Jon | May 11, 2013 | daily, feat., g, mama |
To my sweet Mama, It’s been four years since we last shared a Mother’s Day together in person. This time four years ago you were in the middle of a rigorous series of chemo treatments–treatments we discovered the following July had worked. That fall,...
by Jon | Apr 28, 2013 | feat., g, stoles |
After a week in simply spring-y Georgia, I am back in Connecticut basking in the warm spring sun and watching the trees sprout out their baby green leaves. I was back in the South to go to my dear seminary friend’s wedding in Mobile (fun fact: Mobile has the...
by Jon | Apr 28, 2013 | feat., sermons |
This sermon was preached on these three texts: Acts 11: 1- 18 | Revelation 21: 1-6 | John 13: 1-35 Three weeks ago, when I was looking at the scriptures for this week, I chose these three because at the time I intended to speak to the way that God has welcomed...
by Jon | Apr 23, 2013 | daily, feat. |
My freshman year of college was filled with icebreakers. You know the ones–those obnoxious little games meant to help a group of nervous underclassmen become a little more familiar with one another. Generally, these games center around “interesting little...