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My friend, Patrick Mead, recently wrote about his job as a minister and talked about some of the jokes people make and we preachers sometimes make–’must be nice to work only one day a week!!!’
I like to combat that one wiht this: ‘if you had to work with the people I work with you would [...]

We are doing a series in our Sunday morning Adult class on WINGS (Women IN God’s Sight) and we are really trying to dissect many passages of scripture that are pertinent to the discussion (Genesis 1-3, O.T examples and rules, Jesus’ interaction with women, Luke 10:38-42, 1 Corinthians 7,11,14, Ephesians 5, 1 Peter 3) and [...]

Don’t be shocked by the above title.  I was watching the last 30 minutes of Unforgiven last night–it was about the 18th time I have seen all or parts of that film starring Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.  I think (not sure) the young guy traveling with them is played by Eastwood’s son.  It’s amazing [...]

I once attended a pastoral care seminar for Alzheimer’s.
The presenters told us one of the worst things we can get involved with is judging the actions of the family members involved.  Too us who might not know the patient that well we could see them as a struggling nice elderly man or woman in need [...]

Most of us are familiar with the phrase used in marriage: for better or worse!
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about whether or not love is actually better for our lives or worse?
So many people we know just aren’t making it these days.  They are ending up in divorce court or separating and they get [...]

Had a good Sunday yesterday.
Church reminded me again of why it is so important to get recharged and what we do as the redeemed people of God as we gather on the day of Jesus’ resurrection is astounding.  In the midst of a world fallen into sin and chaos a group of people meet anticipating [...]