A few times every year, Prairie Alliance Church (PAC) takes a week, or month, and prays 24/7 for Jesus to open specific doors. One of those prayers was for reconciliation.…

One of the many advantages of being the oldest child is knowing how certain technology works before your siblings, and exploiting that advantage. For example, I convinced one of my…

If you can read traditional Chinese or kanji, you may have guessed what this Japanese idiom means. The direct translation is “5 miles in the fog.” We don’t know how…

As I sat, listening to the buzz of conversation happening around our table, my mind ran to all the meals Jesus ate with people. Jesus intentionally used food to be…

Death is an oxymoron. It is tragically divisive in the indescribable loss and separation it brings, yet it is also incredibly unifying in that we are all impacted by it.…

At the beginning of Ramadan, the 30 days of fasting for our Muslim friends, we woke up to a flurry of text messages from our friends in North Africa. Although…

These three words are repeated six times every single Sunday in my congregation as the congregational response to the communion liturgy. We pray them in earnest that the third person…