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Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 7: 15-29 - What if We are Wrong
In this Thursday reflection on Ecclesiastes 7:15–29, the Teacher's closing observation — God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes — frames the whole passage as a meditation on wisdom and its limits. The Teacher ...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 7: 1-14 - The House of Suffering
In this Wednesday reflection on Ecclesiastes 7:1–14, the Teacher's seemingly morbid observations — that the house of mourning is better than the house of feasting, sorrow better than laughter — are rescued from mere pessimism and read as genuin...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 6 - The Weight of the Soul
In this reflection on Ecclesiastes 6, the Teacher continues wrestling with the emptiness of life when meaning is sought in wealth, pleasure, work, or achievement. Though these things are not inherently bad, they cannot bear the full weight of t...
Sunday Sermon - Witnesses
In our message from May 17, 2026, Andy shares with us from Acts 1: 6-11. Jesus sends us out to the people we know and love, as well as to the people we are tempted to hold with contempt, to be His witnesses, to show all the world His good...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 5 - Cynicism and Hope
In this Monday reflection on Ecclesiastes 5, the chapter's three movements — reverence, humility, and contentment — are unpacked with practical pastoral honesty. The call to guard your words before God and take your vows seriously is a word abo...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 4:9–16 – Two Are Better Than One
In this Friday reflection on Ecclesiastes 4:9–16, we see the Teacher's familiar refrain of vanity gives way to a genuinely hopeful word: two are better than one, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. The reflection unpacks Wesley's concep...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 3:16–4:8 – Cynicism and Beauty
In Ecclesiastes 3:16–4:8, the Teacher reaches perhaps his lowest point — wickedness in the place of justice, the tears of the oppressed with no one to comfort them, and the devastating conclusion that the never-born are better off than the livi...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 3:9–15 – The Gift of the Present Moment
In this Wednesday reflection on Ecclesiastes 3:9–15, one phrase anchors everything: God has put a sense of past and future into their minds. We are wired to look backward and forward simultaneously — to remember, to plan, to worry, to dream — a...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 – Turn, Turn, Turn
In this Tuesday reflection on Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 — the passage made famous by the Byrds' Turn! Turn! Turn! — the full sweep of human experience is named honestly and without pretense: birth and death, planting and uprooting, weeping and laughin...
Sunday Sermon - Wet Cement
In our Traditional sermon from May 10, 2026, Andy shares with us from John 14: 15-21. Jesus promises not to leave us orphaned. With changes in life, church, and the world, we can feel unsettled, like wet cement. But then we re...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 2: 12-26 – Greatness
In this Monday reflection on Ecclesiastes 2:12–26, Solomon's existential spiral — the wise and the fools both die and are forgotten, and whoever comes after me might waste everything I built — is met with a gentle diagnosis: delusions of grande...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 2: 1-11 – Living Only for Yourself
In this Friday reflection on Ecclesiastes 2:1–11 — offered on Mother's Day weekend, with a pastoral acknowledgment that the day lands differently for everyone — the Teacher's second experiment in the search for meaning is examined: pleasure. Ha...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 1: 12-18 – The Folly of Wisdom?
In this Thursday reflection on Ecclesiastes 1:12–18 — appropriately falling on the National Day of Prayer — the Teacher's surprising conclusion that wisdom itself is vanity is unpacked honestly and personally. On the surface it seems to contrad...
Reflections with Andy - Ecclesiastes 1: 1-11 - Vanity, Vanity, All is Vanity
In this Wednesday reflection that opens a new series in Ecclesiastes, the shift from the New Testament epistles to Old Testament wisdom literature is grounded in a simple observation: we are always searching for meaning, and most of the things ...
Reflections with Andy - Jude 1: 17-25 – Mercy
In this Tuesday reflection that closes out Jude, the letter's final movement is from warning to mercy. Jude tells his readers to remember what the apostles predicted — scoffers will come, driven by their own desires, causing division — but then...
Reflections with Andy - Jude 1: 5-16 – Make Me a Captive, Lord
In this Monday reflection on Jude 5–16, the letter's central concern becomes clear: these false teachers are not being led by the Spirit but by their own unchecked desires — almost certainly the Gnostics encountered in Second and Third John, wh...
Reflections with Andy - Jude 1: 1-4 – The Right Voices
In this Friday reflection on Jude 1–4, Jude's urgent appeal to contend for the faith is set against a backdrop we've seen all week: the problem of wandering teachers. Where Third John commended a church for receiving the right teachers, Jude wa...
Reflections with Andy - 3 John - Co-worker with the Truth
In this Thursday reflection on Third John, the letter's central cast — faithful Gaius, self-promoting Diotrephes, and well-regarded Demetrius — illuminates a practical question about the early church: how do you know whether to trust a wanderin...
Reflections with Andy - 2 John – 2 John - Gnosticism
In this Wednesday reflection on Second John, the short letter is read in full and unpacked around its central warning: many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. John's call to love o...
Reflections with Andy - 1 John 5: 13-21 – Levels of Sin?
In this Tuesday reflection that closes out First John, three threads from the final passage come together. The promise that God grants what we ask according to his will is clarified: it's not that God gives us whatever we want, but that he alig...
Reflections with Andy - 1 John 5: 6-12 – Testimony
In this Monday reflection on 1 John 5:6–12, John's three witnesses — the Spirit, the water, and the blood — are unpacked through the lens of Wesleyan theology to show how each one gives unified testimony to the same truth: eternal life is found...
Sunday Sermon - Abundance
In our Sunday sermon from April 26, 2026, Andy shares with us from John 10: 1-10. Jesus doesn't just call us to live, but to abundant life. That abundant life is how we will win the world for Jesus.
Reflections with Andy - 1 John 5: 1-1-5 – It’s All About Jesus
In this Friday reflection on 1 John 5:1–5, John's simple declaration — everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God — becomes the starting point for a pastoral word about primary and secondary issues of faith. Doctrinal a...
Reflections with Andy - 1 John 4: 7-21 – God is Love
In this Thursday reflection on 1 John 4:7–21, three beloved verses anchor the whole passage. First, John's pointed challenge — how can you claim to love a God you've never seen while hating your neighbor standing right in front of you? — is sha...
Reflections with Andy - 1 John 4: 1-6 – Testing
In this Wednesday reflection on 1 John 4:1–6, the familiar verse — greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world— anchors a practical and pastoral call to discernment in a noisy world. We serve a mighty God who doesn't need us to defe...