Poema – April 2024, Week 4

Poema – April 2024, Week 4

Dear Grace, I had a perfect moment last Sunday. My family and I sat around a fire in our backyard, telling stories, and sharing about the very full weekend that we had experienced: our teens shared about how they experienced the student retreat, my littlest shared...
Poema – April 2024, Week 3

Poema – April 2024, Week 3

Dear Grace, Can you believe that our study in Ecclesiastes is almost over? (Hopefully, the living it out isn’t anywhere near finished!) I don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding myself quoting or referring back to Ecclesiastes regularly in conversation…even...
Poema – April 2024, Week 2

Poema – April 2024, Week 2

Dearest Grace, Last week someone asked me what it was like for my wife Carol and I to serve communion over and over and over again on Good Friday. If you were not able to be at our Good Friday gathering, there was a portion of the gathering where we took Communion....
Poema – April 2024, Week 1

Poema – April 2024, Week 1

Dear Grace, What a Holy Week! We got a full-dimensional picture of the beauty of Grace. Our Holy Week a.m. devotions were a wonderful time of reflecting on the timeline of Jesus’ march to the cross, all in the context of a multi-generational gathering around breakfast...
Poema – March 2024, Week 3

Poema – March 2024, Week 3

Dearest Grace …   Palm Sunday is just around the corner which means Easter will be upon us before we know it! This is somewhat hard for me to believe. The year feels like it is going by so quickly yet even as time flies by, there are certain things that can...
Poema – March 2024, Week 2

Poema – March 2024, Week 2

Dear Grace, “Two are better than one…” That’s the phrase that keeps reverberating through my mind as I think about life and ministry. There’s a well-known African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The...