Dear Glen Mar friends, I’m so excited for worship this week! At 9:30 AM we will have the cantata “The Winter Rose“ and at 11:00 AM we will have awesome contemporary music and carols and I’ll be preaching on Isaiah and “Peace for the Journey,”  for the 4th Sunday of Advent. Y’all come! It’s also very easy to invite friends…

Dear Glen Mar friends, We aren’t sure of the exact day of Jesus’ historical birth, but our forbears placed it in late December, after the winter solstice (in this hemisphere, anyway), when the nights are still long but there has been a turning, away from shadows to light. A time when winter’s days are numbered. A time when hope whispers…

Dear Glen Mar friends,
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I am getting so excited about two of my favorite things – turkey and Giving Tuesday!
Turkey because it makes the house smell like “home and family” and Giving Tuesday because it is a global movement to encourage people to do good!

Dear Glen Mar friends,
On behalf of your pastors and staff, I want to thank everyone for their expressions of love for October’s Clergy (and Staff) Appreciation Month. It is our joy to be in ministry with each of you and we are so grateful God has brought our lives together!

Dear Glen Mar friends,
As votes are being counted in some important races around the country, and as Veteran’s Day approaches, I give thanks for the ways that the Church models the servant leadership of Christ, in public and private ways. My prayer, as a citizen of a country that looks divided at times, is that we can model unity in diversity.