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2026 · 33
- MISSING ANYTHING?
- JUST FOR THE HALIBUT
- ARE THOSE PANTS HOT?
- A PEBBLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
- A FAN OF FANS
- SOWING SEEDS OF DOUBT OR HOPE?
- I LOVE TO WIN BUT...
- FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY and FIFTY FROM NOW
- There's A First Time For Everything
- Life's About Little Ones and Small Stuff
- A Promise Packed with Possibilities
- Gotta Love Those JOY Spreading Knicks!
- The Soundtrack of My Life
- Birthday Blessings And A Banana Or Two
- Holy Hubbub and Holy Hope
- Kinda Weird and Wonderful
- Mama's Words and Ways
- Thoughts On Kings, Wannabes and Leadership
- I LIKE YOU, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
- Silence Is Not Always Golden
- About Moving On
- Stuck Between the Worst and the Best?
- Unfinished Business
- What Happened to Putting On Our Sunday Best?
- Close Encounters of the Best Kind
- Fishing For Names
- Almost Perfect Pancakes for Almost Perfect People
- Sorry, I'm late.
- Oh, The Messages We Receive and Send
- Feel Like Hibernating?
- Honest to God!
- I Don't Mean To Brag But...
- Rock Solid Advice
2025 · 50
- Airport Angels
- Jumping for JOY and Other Sights of the Season
- God Has A Heart For Grinches
- Now and Again
- It's Time to Talk Turkey
- Tell Me Something Good
- It's About Enough
- Tricks or Treats?
- Sermon From A Pint -Sized Preacher
- Bookmarks and Footnotes
- Come To Think Of It...
- TIME TO STOP SCREAMING TO BE HEARD
- "Fight Like Hell..."
- Color Me Purple
- IT'S A DIRTY BUSINESS BUT..
- It's Me, Again.
- The Rest of Our Days
- Lessons in Line
- Signs and Wonders
- Being Predictable Isn't All Bad, Is It?
- IS THAT ALL I'M GOOD FOR?
- Oh, Canada!
- TALKIN' T-SHIRTS
- AND THAT'S THE GOSPEL TRUTH
- JEG TAKKER GUD FOR ALT
- I Heard You Yelling, "More Pictures!"
- Family Times in Norway
- God Morgen Fra Norge
- How Long Can You Run On Empty?
- The Last Best Word
- Cardamomo
- I Already Cried
- Remembering Who, What and Why
- "Embarrassed!"
- A Prayer for Sleepless Times
- Who Needs Church?
- Provisions for Moral Moments
- Perks and Promises
- Like Yeast from the Least
- "Love It Back to Life, Mama."
- Simply, Come
- Time Marches On
- What's Wrong and What's Possible Together?
- PART II: LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS
- PART 1: LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS
- Now What?
- Unplugging Works Wonders
- Life's Ins and Outs
- Thoughts on Faith, Fires and Funerals
- My, My, My and Life's Miss Fits
2024 · 56
- WHAT REMAINS MATTERS MOST
- The Gift of Laughter and Stories for Christmas
- Love Always
- Here Be Good News
- TIME TO SING SOME THANK YOU NOTES
- Thank God for Cranberries and More
- A TASTE OF HEAVEN
- NOW WHAT?
- Beware, Be Informed, But Vote
- GOOD NEWS: SAINTS ABOVE and BELOW ARE PRAYING
- NEEDED: COURAGE!
- Signs and Wonders In Life's Ordinary Moments
- I Know I Should't have but...
- Racing Towards Grace
- Consider The Source
- Bridge Builders Needed
- Kick-Off Sunday and Blessed Mondays
- Mum's the Word
- Making Headlines or Making a Difference?
- To Err is Human...
- Don't Worry, Be Happy 'Cause...
- After All's Said and Done, Still Standing
- Gold Medals and Moments
- A Heart to Heart Talk
- Spent Time
- Don't Eat Kale
- "Shh!"
- Small Change and Changes Matter
- Wasn't Nothin' Much
- Wring or Fold?
- Table Talk in Troubling Times
- To Life: Hot, Humid and Holy!
- Not Another Tie!
- REPURPOSED
- LOVE MATTERS
- Good Company
- Life is for the Birds
- When Once Is Not Enough
- God's Four Letter Words
- Feeling A Little Like Scrooge
- It's About Time
- Something Worth Remembering While We Wait
- You Are Not Alone
- Scars, Stories and an Old Familiar Song
- Have You Got A Minute?
- Let's Face It
- A Simple Question
- Don't Worry! Really?
- Kindness is a Good Starting Place
- Lent: A Time To Tarry
- Test Post for Social Feed
- A Time to Dance
- Stay
- Thank You For Showing Up
- Odds and Ends
- The Gift of Tomato Soup
2023 · 50
- Whoops!
- Appreciation Along With Anticipation
- To Be Seen
- A Bumper Sticker, Bethlehem and Being Mangers
- What Do You Want for Christmas?
- Coffee On The Run
- Just Twenty MInutes
- On Pardoning Turkeys
- What's Wrong? You Look Worried.
- Sometimes Hope Needs a Hand
- Tricks or Treats and Some Usual Good Practices
- A Time to Cry, A Time to Clap
- Toothless and Blind
- So What Are You Reading These Days?
- So, What's for Suppah?
- The Sans of Time
- This Is SO You!
- Change is No Small Matter
- On an Ipswich Hillside
- By Flying Leaps and Bending Low
- And Grace To Lead Us Home
- Savoring the Sidelines
- Beach Time: Hot, Humid and Heavenly
- Running on Empty?
- Let There Be Light
- Sometimes Good Enough is Good Enough
- Thoughts on Railings
- Where Are You?
- Them versus Us
- THIS is the Church
- Odds and Ends
- A Birthday Biscuit and So Much More
- One of Those Days
- TIME BETWEEN TIMES
- All the While
- Lets Face It
- We Need To Talk
- Marathon Moments
- FOOT NOTES
- Thoughts On A Pint-Sized Saint
- Still Learning
- About That Mess
- REVIVE US AGAIN
- The Mark
- Nuggets from a Nursery Rhyme
- Sunday Thoughts on Tuesday
- Comfort Food
- Remembering Some Blessings Tucked into Endings and Beginnings
- Still Shining
- Joy Shots
2022 · 50
- On The Fifth Day of Christmas
- The Word Became
- Not Your Average Jo
- Puzzling Over Christmas
- Bethlehem Bound
- Here Be God
- Mending Ways
- Is The Church in the USA on the Ballot?
- Nothing Ordinary About Any Of Us
- Alternate Commandments
- High Expectations
- Windows on the World
- Postcards Can Wait
- Seeds for Thought
- Queen For A Day
- TALKING TRASH
- Soul Food
- Remember When...?
- What a Wonderful World!
- Following a Deeper Clock
- Picnic Sundays and Baloney Sandwiches
- The Unexpected Jesus
- Hall of Famers
- A Little Perspective
- Precious ProXimity
- A Cautionary Tale
- Once Upon a Time
- Sweet, Sacred Summertime
- Sometimes, The Impossible's Possible
- When Throwaway meets Radical Mending
- Story Stones
- Time between Times
- Precious People
- A Few Random Thoughts
- Standing on Tiptoe
- A Good Day to Make Soup
- Silent Saturday
- Mrs. M.'s Dash in Brown Oxfords
- Sunshine for the Soul
- Piece Keeping Missions
- The State of Our Souls
- Small Matters
- Home of the Brave and the Scared
- Speaking of...
- TO TELL THE TRUTH
- Do-Little Days
- Just a Piece of Friendly Advice
- Because You Asked...
- J.E.L.L. OH!
- Where's an Angel When You Need One?
2021 · 43
- God Within Reach
- Sometimes Hope Sings Unlikely Songs in Unusual Places
- The Last Straw
- Come
- Hankering for Home
- Somebody's Fishing
- The Heart of the Matter
- A Shot in the Arm with a Dose of Hope
- Preaching without Words
- Enough
- Coming Home
- Holy Holes
- Life from the Sidelines
- Good To Be Seen and Heard
- Comforting Afghans
- Keep it Simple, Saint.
- Gold Mettle Winners
- Mending Times
- Hard to Hear Truth
- Whoops
- A Uniform Language
- Sermongate
- Humanity with a Side of Humor
- Friends, Come and Have Some Breakfast
- Life's Multiple Choice Tests
- Group Therapy
- Doing What's Possible
- RX: Music
- On Backpacks and Baggage
- Lost and Found
- Holy Fools
- Palm Offerings
- No Ordinary Joe
- Hope is Bi-Partisan
- Thoughts on Privies, Pedestals, and Ponderables
- Life's A Shot in the Arm
- Laughter during Lent
- Love, God
- Simply Ordinary
- Monday's School for the Blind
- On the Eve of Instruction
- Epiphany and Infamy
- On The Twelfth Day of Christmas
2020 · 62
- Routine Matters
- The Long and Short of It
- Leafless Beauty
- Of Broken Lights
- Holy Oddities
- Said the Donkey to the Elephant
- The Light's Always On
- Gonna Build Something?
- Wanna Build Something Together?
- Of Legacies and Leftovers
- Pausing To Reflect and Lament
- Turn Around Times
- Of Bridges and Boundaries
- What's a "God Bless" Look Like, Anyhow?
- A Weighty Matter
- Becoming A Vaccine
- Solitary Refinement
- Uncommon Grace
- The Gospel According to John
- Weighing in on Faithfulness
- Of Pancakes, Pandemics and Protests
- Monumental Mistakes and Moments
- Picture Perfect
- Keep Counting
- Lets Write Better Stories
- Called to Cushion
- America Unmasked
- Aslan's on the Move
- After the Yelling Stops, the Work Starts
- Listening for God
- Revelations
- Redemption Centers
- Signs of the Times
- What's For Dinner?
- Still Learning
- Fault Lines
- The Good Old Days Weren't So Good
- Life Between the Lines
- Pure Easter
- "Anybody Seen Peter?"
- Lost and Found
- Hidden Treasures in Holy Week
- More, Please.
- Wright's Right, This is a Season of Lament
- Take a Deep Breath
- A Wake-Up Song
- Soap and Time On My Hands
- Thank God for WE Day
- Hope's Still Hanging Around
- Matt Matters
- Heart to Heart not Hand to Hand
- On Laughter and Lions
- Hand Wringing and Hand Washing
- Hard of Hearing or Just Not Listening?
- Holy Doorknobs
- Squandered
- Love Matters
- Lost and Found Words
- Still Christmas
- Truth with Consequences
- After The Star Goes Back Where It Came From
- Welcoming a New Year with God, Groups and Grapes
2019 · 53
- Turnaround Time
- Shopping for Comfort and Joy
- Choosing Calm in a Frenzied Season
- What Right Matters More?
- Magnificent Losers
- Saints Below
- Assessing One's Net Worth
- Fireside Chat
- Every Now and Then We Need a Little "WOW!"
- Whispering Hope
- Fall, Fallout and Faithfulness
- Common Ground Isn't so Common
- A Taste of Church at the Farmer's Market
- Summer's Leftovers
- Blowing in the Wind
- When the End Justifies the Means
- Life on the Run
- Goings and Comings
- Just to Let You Know
- Truth or Lie?
- What's Your Song?
- The Power of Words
- Good to Know
- Laughter for Sale
- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!
- Blessings with a Side of Bacon
- Raw Redemption
- Come
- Something for Nothing
- A Heart to Heart Talk
- Grace-Full Landing
- One Way to Grow Older
- Saturday Matters on Monday
- A New Maundy
- A Story Worth Retelling
- An AMAZING Thought or Two
- Lost In Wonder
- A SUNDAY SONG
- Springtime Sunshine
- Time to Tithe
- A Good Funeral Wakes Up the Living to Live and Love Better
- A Poem, Potbelly Stove and Penance
- Winter Whine
- When Love is a Four Letter Word
- True Love
- Agony, Ecstasy and All That's In-between
- Life After Pizza
- The Rest of the Lego Litany
- Lessons from Legos
- Life On Bended Knees
- Half-way to Spring and My Tree's Still Up
- Shuttering Thoughts
- Stuck in the Stable?
2018 · 65
- After All's Said and Done
- Woe be Gone
- Thoughts on Walls and Halls
- For the Love of Man and Beast
- Discounting Christianity
- All of This?
- Storm Advisory
- A "Tink" or Two
- Turning Back Time
- Joy on Parade
- Real Pearls
- Life Savers
- Wisdom Weeps and Waits
- Laments While Life Goes On
- Pancakes, Pumpkins and the Pleasure of Friends
- Church In and Out of Place
- Value Judgments
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T
- We're Better Than This
- School's Open
- Holy Misfits
- Sometimes Blessed to Hurry
- Life's Unfinished Business
- Scattered Rugs and Thoughts
- Apron Diplomacy
- On Bended Knees
- The Yolks on Me
- Good to Go Slow
- Signs and Wonders
- Uncle!
- For the Love of Little
- Golden Opportunities
- Viva San Pietro
- Adaptations
- Cowbells and Common Delights
- Kind Kids
- Perilous Perks
- O Say Can You See?
- Rx: Love
- Sticker Shock
- Scars
- Sudden Spring
- Pearls at the Pearly Gates
- Finish Line Fans
- Swaddled in Sunshine
- Springtime's for Soaring
- Known By Their Song
- Sacred Silence
- When Rocks Cry
- Knee Deep Ramblings
- Moaning and Mending
- All is Well
- Exhibit A
- When Love's Toast
- Every Head Bowed, Every Eye Closed
- And a Teen Shall Lead Them
- A Heart for Lent
- Love and Chocolate Lobsters
- Testimonies and Stories
- Life's Inconveniences
- Woes and Wonders
- Passed by the Hearse
- Go Get the Soap!
- Signs of the Times
- When Terra Firma isn't so Firma
2017 · 98
- Angels High and Low
- Aloha
- Wait 'Til You Hear This!
- Hunting Lost Treasure
- When my Get Up and Go Feels More Like It Got Up and Went
- Thanksgiving Ladders
- Come for Pies and Prayer
- Who Cares?
- Living with Questions, Believing Still
- Treats With a Trick or Two
- An Invaluable Tip
- Letters of the Law
- Questionable Voting Practices
- Sermon in the San Anselmo Inn
- Come Before Winter
- Growing in the Dark
- Knee Deep In Trouble
- Container Christianity
- Good and Tired
- Thoughts When Life Fogs Up
- Caring's Contagious
- Mangoes and Other Marvels
- God Bless You!
- Summer's for Sale
- Wide-Eyed Gratitude
- Enough Said
- Life's Give and Take
- Holy Punctuation!
- Thoughts from the Farmer's Market
- Ingredients for a Lasting Legacy
- Story Lines
- Life's Insteads
- Life's Hidden Helpers
- Holy Hospitality
- Freedom of Choice
- Unpacking Takes Time
- Hints of Heaven
- Go Green
- Time to Stand and Stare
- Are We There Yet?
- Sailing on the Unafraid
- Stagger your Breathing
- Life Away from the Explorer's Lounge
- Choir Practice 8:00a.m.
- Bon Voyage
- One Story at a Time
- Excuse Me, But...
- For Better or for Worse
- Still Under Construction
- Holy Nonsense
- Hand in Hand, the Best We Can
- Flat Stanley Comes to Visit
- Whoops!
- Some Days Only a Poem Will Do
- Mending and Marching
- What am I Missing?
- Life and Death Matters
- About Those Pearly Gates
- Pint Sized Preacher
- Wondering Still
- Standing Practice
- Me,Too.
- What About Lunch?
- Footnotes
- Following the Parade
- Growing in God's Garden
- God's Short LIst
- Held Together by Hope and Duct Tape
- Talking to Myself
- Holy Hygge
- Keeping On
- Noteworthy Lives
- Stable Thoughts on a Stormy Day
- Focus
- Fog Squinters
- Correct Me, If I'm Wrong
- A Nickel for Your Thoughts
- Sometimes This Sheep Make Mistakes
- Limping Into Lent
- Settling in the Land of Hope
- Prime Time
- Awesome Aging
- Love for Despicable Me
- Sermons from the Sidelines
- Thank God for Stand-Up-Speak-Out Evangelicals
- A Word from John the Baptist
- Unlikely Pilgrimages
- Thank God for Potluck
- A Novel Approach to Love
- Still Learning
- Picture Perfect
- Taking It from the Top
- The Peril of a Loveless Culture
- Dear God
- Still Thinking
- A Thrill of Hope
- A Snowball for an SUV
- Homemade Hope
2016 · 126
- Still Possibilities
- Come and Stay Christmas
- A Glad Christmas
- Breathless in Bethlehem
- Parking Lot Pulpit
- Da da
- Blanket Approval
- Perfect Timing
- Advent's Gift
- When Hope and Grace Came for Thanksgiving
- Love Your Enemies
- Maggie's Memory Box
- Elementary School Lessons for Grown-Ups
- Come for Leftovers.
- Holy Healing
- Noble November
- Tricks and Treats of Everyday Life
- Thread-Words to Keep Us From Unraveling
- Be It Ever So Humble
- Poverty
- Heading Home
- After All's Said and Done
- Sayonara Surveys
- For the Love of Bread
- Happy Birthday, Jud.
- Parking Lot Penance
- Free to Sit
- Fault Lines
- Slept in Seattle
- Lust Is A Four Letter Word
- The Rush-ins are Coming
- Hope Land
- Blessed Beyond Belief
- A Thought on Labor Day
- Home Schooled
- Dragon Slayers Among Us
- Laugh Lines
- Don't Worry.
- Room at the Rock
- Sipping Tea and Setting Limits
- Sweatin' It Out in Church
- Store Bought Laughter
- Dean, Birds and One Small Boy
- Olympic Gold
- The Cost of Exclusion
- Children At Play
- Nuts to You
- Home and Heart Tenders
- The Welcome Flags of Summer
- Are We So Far to the Right, It's Wrong?
- So, What's in a Name?
- Food for Thought
- Don't Count Me As An Evangelical.
- God's Greenhouse
- Making Great or Being Grateful
- Something for Men on Father's Day
- Poco's Present
- Call the Fire Department!
- Suitcases Stuffed with Stories
- The Game of Life
- Blown Cover
- Remembering Together
- God's in Gdansk
- National Donut Day
- How Old Am I, Really?
- Home Sweet Home
- Blessings from Bergen
- Floating into Flam
- Sunburned in Stavanger
- The Gift of a Dull Day
- E is for Elephant
- Saturday at Sea
- Cane and Able
- Truth or Dare
- A Peek at St. Petersburg and Prodigals
- Second Hand Joy
- Just In Case
- The Last Straw
- Table Talk
- Recipes and Relationships
- Christmas Tea for Basil
- Cat's Got My Tongue
- Stalled
- Sports Talk
- Second Thoughts
- Good to Remember
- Chewing on a Do-over
- A Miracle for Amirah
- Where Does Faith Come From and Why?
- Painting A Way
- Too Small to Miss
- Come with Choruses
- Questions Welcomed
- This Calls for an Inside Job
- Something to Tell Our Kids and Grandkids
- Lingering Instability
- A Warming Trend
- Are We Becoming the Land of the Red, White and Boo?
- Good to Go
- Ponder Anew
- The Significance of "Not Much"
- Words Matter
- Second Efforts
- A Sacred Shove
- Doing What We Can
- Safety First?
- Faith in an MRI
- Love on Valentine's Day
- Holy Slow
- Heart to Heart Talk
- One Day In the Weak
- Learning to Listen Up
- Thoughts on Surplus and the Heart of the Church
- Rx: Mercy
- The Gift of an Empty Bowl
- Remember? Remember.
- A Community of Somehow Singers
- Lightening the Load
- Immersed in Joy
- The Gift Exchange
- Knee deep in Choice
- Epiphany
- Sitting Taller
- Can We Talk?
- Cardinal Truths
- Take Along Mercy
2015 · 37
- Life Under the Fog
- Room for One More
- Living Backwards
- Holy Rollers
- Taking a Tumble Over Truth
- Same Old, Same Old, Until...
- God's Advent Calendar
- Simple Stuff
- A Pink Paper Crown Sprinkled with Hope
- In-Between Times
- Broken Crayons
- Good Enough
- The Gift of Specks and Slivers
- Shunpiking with TripTiks and a Song
- One Good Question
- Catching Up
- A Gift Along the Way
- A Fight to Remember
- A Taste of Glory
- Better Than Planned
- Gone for Good
- God's Good Nights
- Backseat Blessings
- Food for Thought
- Don't set your watch by Big Ben.
- A Piece of History: Jud and his Volvo
- "Small Gestures of Holiness"
- Welcome To My New Home
- Freedom From Sound Bytes.
- The Seeming Small Stuff of Life.
- Soup?
- September Remembering and Giving Thanks.
- On Good Authority.
- Holy Scars.
- This is the Day.
- Back to School.
- 'Morning by Morning, New Mercies'