Disruptive Dwelling: The God We Call “She”

by | Mar 27, 2018 | Uncategorized

by Leigh DeVries In my first couple years as a youth pastor I worked with and for a self-proclaimed “boy’s club” in the South. My fellow youth ministers all went to the same all-boys school in Nashville and then had gone off to big SEC schools for college. They loved...

Disruptive Dwelling: “Christian Enough”

by | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized

I remember one evening when I was seven, sitting at the dinner table eating Sloppy Joes with my family, when my parents asked my brother, a sullen teenager preparing for confirmation, if he had the Lord’s Prayer memorized. He didn’t. I perked up: a chance...

Put a Pin In It

by | Feb 16, 2018 | Uncategorized

I have all the time in the world for you. There is nothing more important than this. I want to be the kind of pastor and friend who says this. I want to be the kind of neighbor and daughter and wife and colleague whom people know means it when she says it. Someone...

You are Stardust

by | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 1 “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the...

Cracked

by | Feb 5, 2018 | Uncategorized

Sermon at Madras United Methodist Church, January 28, 2018 Mark 1:21-28 21 They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 22 They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the...