by Andres Herrera | Sep 29, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Philippians 2:1 It is a challenge...
by Andres Herrera | Sep 22, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
How to describe what happens to us after death? The Gospels bear witness to the experience of Jesus’ earliest followers seeing one they knew as Jesus in bodily form; it is striking that in one account they do not recognize him. This is a movement that theologians...
by Andres Herrera | Sep 15, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
So much of our thinking now is saturated with binaries—people are ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys;’ we are socially conscious or benighted; I am right and you are wrong. This categorical way of thinking is as old as the Manicheans, a religious movement that thrived between...
by Andres Herrera | Sep 8, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of the blessings of being church is that we get to walk with each other throughout the course of our whole lives–from birth to death. There is strength to be found in knowing and being known, especially in times of joy and sorrow. Each of us is tied together...
by Andres Herrera | Sep 1, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
How have you made momentous decisions in your life? Lists weighing pros and cons? SWOT analyses? Opening up the Bible and picking a passage randomly? Decisions about whether to have a child, questions of moving, responding to health situation requiring a choice of...
by Andres Herrera | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
When I was a young girl growing up in an evangelical Christian tradition I was terrified of hell. It was not preached about incessantly in my home congregation, but when it was, the images I had were horrific–a lake of fire, people burning in never ending...
