“Fearfully and wonderfully made”              From our psalm this morning, we hear our psalmist praising God, saying:  “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139.14). I love this poetic image so much because it not only describes our origins and whose image we’re all ultimately made in, but the content of it -fearfully and wonderfully made:  there’s something…

“Why John the Baptizer won’t be appearing in the next Hallmark movie…”              I like to try to get down to my parents’ house on the family farm every few weeks.  And it’s funny, almost every time I get down there on late Sunday afternoon, I come walking in the front door and there my parents are, relaxing in the front living…