Mama’s Boy, Vol. 3
Read the previous letters: Mama’s Boy, Vol. 1 Mama’s Boy, Vol. 2 Dear Mama, It’s my third year sitting down around this time of year and thinking about all the things I want to tell you. Like how I miss calling you. It’s been seven years...
Altarscapes 101: 4 Tips for Visual Worship
Are you interested in incorporating more creative and visually engaging elements into worship? Here are some tips to think about before you do. 1. Tell the story. Our faith is filled with stories–stories of wars and friendships, of healing and miracles and...
Longing for Light: A Sermon for Lent 4B
I preached this sermon on Sunday, March 15 at Westfield. Before you read it, read the scriptures of the day from Numbers and John I want to love light. I want to bask in it, to feel its warmth. I want to walk paths illuminated by it. I want to reflect it. And the...
Drawing Circles
This sermon’s title and theme was inspired by Westfield’s Minister of Music who chose Mark Miller’s Draw the Circle Wide as a song for today. We ended the service circling the sanctuary singing to one another: “Draw the circle, draw the circle...
Trying to Make Trees (A Dramatic Retelling of Westfield Homecoming 2014)
One of the great challenges of the creative life, dear reader, is trying to get what’s in your head, the vision that your mind’s eye sees so clearly, to come into existence in real life. There are times when what you’ve got in your head is exactly...01. WELCOME
