Sunday, April 30, 2023

Rev. Brent Gundlah If only church could be the way it used to be. Has that thought crossed your mind lately? Sure, we’ve come a long way since the throes of the pandemic, when pastors were preaching into cell phones in empty sanctuaries, when our interactions were at...

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Second Sunday of EasterDoubts — Rev. Brent Gundlah     One day during my freshman year of college, I had an experience that still gives me nightmares. I was sitting in a class (I don’t remember the name of it) when the professor directed a question my...

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Easter SundayRev. Brent Gundlah Happy Easter, everyone! When I was on vacation last week I spent a lot of time browsing in tourist trap souvenir shops, as I’ve done on pretty much every trip I’ve ever taken. This is not an unusual activity for a traveler to engage in...

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Fifth Sunday in LentDry Bones —Rev. Brent Gundlah Right around last Labor Day, after almost two and a half years of managing to avoid it, I finally ended up catching myself a nice case of COVID. As anyone who’s had this dreaded disease can tell you, there’s not really...

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Fourth Sunday in LentLight of the World —Rev. Brent Gundlah This year’s switch to Daylight Savings Time hit me pretty hard. Truth be told, that whole spring ahead thing has never been easy for me, but it’s been markedly tougher since I became a minister. When that...

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Rev. Brent Gundlah If you’ve watched a sporting event at some point in the past forty years I guarantee that you’ve seen them, even if you don’t remember having seen them. Whether it was behind home plate in a 3-2 count, in between the uprights for a tie-breaking...