Greetings on this beautiful All Hallows Eve!

At Brookhaven Christian Church, we have been blessed in different ways by all who have walked through our doors and entered into fellowship with our community of faith.  But one group of folks have had a special impact on us.  I speak of our Cambodian friends who have become such an important part of our community.  They have blessed us with their friendship, joined in with our fellowship, become important parts of our w ...

As we move into November, we move ever closer to one of my favorite holidays of the year. Oh, Easter and Christmas bring incredible joy and awe on an almost cosmic level, but Thanksgiving is a more personal holiday to me. That is, as much as I am overjoyed to celebrate Christ’s resurrection as well as his earthly birth, the fact is that those events are almost incomprehensible. God on earth? Jesus died, but then he lived? My soul is stirred by such pronouncements even as my little pea brain has trouble processing it all! But Thanksgiving is a different story.
Thanksgiving stirs my soul and is something as real as the people who surround me on that day.

Thanksgiving is a chance to honor God for all we have been given, and most importantly to me, a chance to give thanks for those who have paved
the way for me to be where I am today. Thanksgiving is a family and friends holiday. Thanksgiving is a time to cherish the overwhelming bounty that is our ...

Remember the old westerns?ÂThe ones where the good guys and the bad guys were easily identifiable.ÂSometimes it was as easy as looking at what color hat they wore.ÂSometimes the bad guy was the one who hadn’t shaved for days and the good guy was somehow always clean cut and well groomed.ÂIf someone had a scar running down the side of their face, you knew they were the bad guys.

  
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We are Christians in large part because of our Hebrew forebears.  Oh, you may have heard it all before: the Hebrew Bible, the collection of stories we sometimes call the Old Testament, is an important part of our heritage.  We cannot fully understand Jesus and his impact on his culture without having some passing acquaintance of the Hebrew Bible.  Indeed, we cannot understand the importance of Jesus on our culture without striving to understand the lessons of the Hebrew Bible.  That portion of our Holy Bible makes it clear that God chose to enter the world first through the Hebrew people: God’s chosen people.  Through them, God’s presence was experienced first and most directly.  And because Jesus was part of that chosen people, his voice found ears among those who understood who he was: the Messiah incarnate, come to connect God and humanity directly.

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