Happy Friday, Glen Mar! Lent is right around the corner. While the penitential season officially begins next Wednesday on Ash Wednesday, February 18th, we will be starting our Lenten sermon series, The Desert Mothers and Fathers, this coming Sunday. Throughout the series, we will be drawing on resources from Lectio365. You can find more information about the series here. I…

Dear friends, Just a word of appreciation for the folks with whom I am blessed to connect through study. This week, after a week off due to weather, our Disciple classes gathered, and I was wowed by the risky sharing, the profound insights, and the deep desire to live as faithful disciples of Jesus. What a blessing! Disciple II classes…

Greetings Glen Mar, When was the last time you looked at the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-12? How about the entire “Sermon on the Mount”? As our resident Bible scholars are aware, the Beatitudes kick off Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, which covers chapters five through seven of Matthew’s Gospel. The teachings in these chapters are widely regarded as Jesus’s core…

Greetings Glen Mar, What a week! This past Monday was Glen Mar’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. While this has been happening for 12 years, it was my first time witnessing firsthand the beauty of what God does through this church. We welcomed over 1,000 participants into the building, and who knows how many more at our…

Greetings Glen Mar, I hope you had a good week! This past Tuesday and Wednesday, I had the privilege of serving on the Baltimore-Washington Conference Board of Ordained Ministry (BOOM) at the annual ordination exams. I have been serving on the BWC BOOM since 2022, as part of my connectional service. Over those two days, I listened to the stories,…