Thanks everyone for encouraging me to post this.

On the tenth anniversary of 9.11, how might we pursue peace amidst our hurt, sadness and anger?

1,095,000.  That’s how many advertisements you will encounter this year.  This equals 3,000 advertisements each day.  You will encounter more commercials in a single year than your counter part 50 years ago saw in their entire lifetime.  In 2009 Microsoft spent 518 million dollars on advertising in order to combat the iPhone (…and their ads [...]

We return to full on sermons this palm sunday… here’s way more than a sneak peak.

Advent – it’s a wake up call.

Give Us This Bread Always

John 6:24-35
After the feeding of the five-thousand, the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, so they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.  When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when [...]

My friend Ahmed, a devout agnostic, recently asked me, “Ryan, If you remove the fear of hell and the promise of heaven… who’s gonna care about God anymore?” I said, “Ahmed, have you ever heard of a guy named Job?” Because Ahmed’s question is the book of Job’s question.  It’s a question that strips us [...]

Written for Epiphany 3  1|25|09 – The Calling of Peter, Andrew, James and John (Mark 1:14-20)
ryan marsh – beloved architect
I know that this story is supposed to be moving and beautiful, and I can imagine it in a 1980’s epic movie kind of way – The waves lapping against the shore, the brothers busy mending [...]