Meals at the Kaylor household are often an eclectic mix of cuisines, what with my wife Jennifer being a vegan and our daughter Hannah and I being regular omnivores (me slightly trending toward carnivore). It’s actually been good for all of us to eat a more plant-based diet and it’s led me to try some …
A few months back, the church Trustees graciously offered to refit my office at the church. It’s not that what I had before was bad, it was just, well, more old school and impractical for my needs. The desk was an ornate, heavy oak that, while beautiful, didn’t lend itself to spreading out books and …
With a series of snow storms hitting us hard here on the Front Range this week, Halloween is likely to be a fairly frigid and subdued holiday. It will be interesting to see whether trick-or-treaters will be out on Thursday night, bundled to the hilt with costumes barely visible underneath. Some hardy Halloweeners will be …
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One a recent trip to Nashville for the New Room Conference Jason and I, along with a couple of other friends, decided to look for a restaurant for breakfast on our way to the opening session for the day. As we drove through one of those strip mall districts, we drove by a Waffle House …
I’ve been following a thread on Twitter over the last couple of weeks concerning one of the great controversies in our culture–one that threatens to further divide the nation and cause untold harm and damage to all sides of the debate. I’m talking, of course, about the Great Chili Controversy of 2019. My Texan friends …
After worship on Sunday, I went home to engage in my normal ritual for an autumn Sunday afternoon: falling asleep while watching football. A lot of times, if the game is exciting enough, I will actually stay awake through it but yesterday was a struggle; mostly because NFL games are constantly stopping because of a …
Had a little bit of an adventure with my vision this week. During our time at the New Room Conference in Nashville, I noticed a new “floater” in my right eye that kind of slowly appeared as I was participating in one of the marvelous worship services there. Over the course of Friday it kind …
Sunday’s sermon on Daniel 7 was a lot of biblical theology compressed into a short amount of time. It’s hard to understate the importance of this text for the New Testament, however, and our understanding of Jesus and his mission. In this week’s blog post, I want to give you some additional resources to look …
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On Sunday we looked at Daniel 6 and Daniel’s daily habit of praying and praising God three times a day with his window open toward Jerusalem. While it’s the story of the lion’s den that gets all the press (and all the songs) in that chapter, none of what Daniel does in the entire book …
In Sunday’s sermon, I mentioned Psalm 90 as a reflection on how we use our time. The “writing on the wall” for King Belshazzar in Daniel 5 was that his “days were numbered” and his rule was about to come to an end. Psalm 90 invites us to consider that our own days are numbered–that …
Last week I had the chance to attend a baseball game at Coors Field (thanks, Rick DiFiore!) between the Colorado Rockies and my favorite hometown team the Pittsburgh Pirates. I’ve been a baseball fan nearly my whole life, ever since I went to my first game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh in 1971. I’ll …
James 1:13-2:13 When you got up this morning, it’s pretty likely that one of the first things you did was to look in the bathroom mirror. You check yourself out, see the bed head hairstyle (not a problem for me), take stock to make sure all your parts are in the right place. But there’s …
From the series “Walls: A Theology in Blood and Brick.” Nehemiah 11:1-2; Acts 1:1-8 When Hadrian’s Wall was built in the second century AD, it represented the very northern edge of the Roman Empire. The Emperor Hadrian had famously decided to halt the expansion of the empire, which he had believed had been overstretched by …
From the series “Walls: A Theology in Blood and Brick”
Isaiah 64:1-12; Matthew 3:13-17; 11:1-6 “Oh that you would tear open the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!” The words of the prophet Isaiah (which we read in our Call to Worship this morning) are a cry that many people can relate to. After all, wouldn’t it be great if …