This week Bear Creek is starting a series of worship services about allowing ourselves to be wooed by God. I know that it’s kind of...

When I was a kid, I was taught to always color inside the lines. I must confess that I wasn’t always good at it. Coloring was always a...

Did any of you see the interesting video this week about the “two-legged” fox? If you haven’t watch it here: “two-legged fox” It’s a...

(For the first "Cow Chronicle" check out my advent video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PrW03QRe26Q ) Christmas Eve when I was growing up...

If you read the Christmas story in the gospels, you will notice that in both Matthew and Luke perhaps the main character in this whole...

Our Advent theme this year is a beautiful question: “Where is your gaze?” And as I have been pondering that, I have found my heart, as I...

Anybody watching the new season of “The Crown”? I have to admit that I’m hooked on the Netflix series, but this season is particularly...

As we move into the new year (the Christian Year starts this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent), I’ve been thinking about how important...

I’ve been reading Philip Yancey’s book “Where The Light Fell”.  In it Yancey quotes GK Chesterton: "The worst moment for the atheist is...

I am so excited today! This is the day that I get to announce that Bear Creek UMC has an author in our midst! Our own, Rev. David...

Cyndy and I sat down and watched a play this week. Yes, a play in our living room! Brad Shoup, a member of Bear Creek, recommended it...

Have any of you been watching what’s been happening to Russell Wilson in Denver? Man, this is painful, isn’t it? Talk about everything...

How many of you ran to your windows this morning, cranked them open, and listened to the rain?!? For some of us, we had to wait a bit,...

This Sunday, if you get a chance to come to worship at Bear Creek UMC, you are in for a powerful moment of wonder and question by our...

This Sunday my church, Bear Creek UMC, is beginning a 4-week worship theme celebrating a Jesus who “gets us” and calls us to “get...

I have had some amazing moments of joy in my life. Kissing the love of my life for the first time! Making a half-court shot in a...

(This Weekend, I am officiating the marriage of Sam McBride (my son) and Lui Ying (Iris). This is the reflection I am sharing. The...

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the biblical concept of Jubilee these days. Mainly because we are using this theme for our...

I have a confession for you: I am blind as a bat! Let me explain. For most of you, the picture I have posted with this blog post has a...

In some senses I have no right even writing about this topic, especially as I am writing it on my “technical” day off! (Yes, I have...