Sports
A Lifelong Tour of the American Pastime
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby, Cardinals 2B
Epiphany
Pour Some Manure on Me, Church
We do this repentance thing together, you see, shovels in hand and manure nearby, tending to each other as best we can, and always with God’s grace and patience and help.
Prayer
A Prayer for City Council: March 17, 2025
Guide us tonight toward making South Haven a better place for all people. Guide us toward love.
Epiphany
A Faithful God, Empowering Us to Love
We are tasked today simply with radiating the glory and love of God through our own lives, and if we do that together, with God’s help, then we can trust that the entire world will be changed.
Epiphany
The Cure for our Infected Hearts
Love is for all, without reserve or measure, and we are invited to that kind of love for their sake, for our own sake, and for our world's.
Epiphany
The Mysterium Tremendum by the Lake
Simon and the future disciples made space for something good for their souls in a world of failure and disappointment, and there, they met God.
Epiphany
Peace, Joy, and Love in a Broken World
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And, we are invited as Christians to join in God’s redeeming work in the world, working toward a society where all are honored and respected and loved.
Sermons
Bishop Marianne Budde's Sermon on Unity
With a commitment to unity, and the solid foundations of dignity, honesty, and humility that such unity requires, we can do our part to help realize the ideals and the dream of America.
Prayer
The Romero Prayer
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Parties in the Dark
God wants our communities of faith to be parties so compelling that no one can see us and deny the truth of love, the goodness of this life.
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Reveals the New Creation
We believe that God reveals that Jesus Christ is the beloved, the sign of a new way of being in the world. What will that mean for us?
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Shines Brightly for All
Epiphany gives us a chance to live our lives in response to this revelation, this manifestation, this glory of God made flesh.