(Credit to Gail Mount and Diane Traynor for the beautiful display created in above picture.) So Easter (Resurrection Day) service has come and gone for another year. How does this remembrance impact the other 364 days of the year for you? When I was younger, each flip of the calendar was a march towards another… Continue Reading The march of time – and its promise
What do you do when someone does what you normally do at church instead of you? This past Sunday, my dear friend, Jerome Byrd, preached in my stead. What did I do? Well, what do you think I should have done? Some might say, stay home, take the day off, rest; since your job is… Continue Reading The time for worship is always
Are we God’s creation or God’s children? We scratched the surface of this in today’s sermon. There is no disputing that we are God’s creation. Genesis 1-2 gives us the account of God’s creation of man. We see the care and trust God gave to man as Adam was placed in the Garden and given… Continue Reading History or His Story
Today many want to tear up or break from the past, broaden our morality, or as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote we should strive to become our authentic self or the determiner of our own self values. These directions lead us to a furtherance of what we saw in Romans 1:18-23 in this morning’s sermon. We see the impact of… Continue Reading Don’t Widen the Plate!
As I prepared for the sermon for this morning, I searched to see what others said about “follow your heart.” Here is what Steve Jobs said: ” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.… Continue Reading About that ‘follow your heart’ thing…
In our reading through the Bible together, our passage for today was Jeremiah 26-27. I got as far as 26:2 and came to an abrupt stop. Here is the verse. Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in… Continue Reading Do not diminish a word
Walking through this past week has taught me something, but let me set the stage first. I missed this morning’s service (actually joined online) because I was sick. I had also been exposed to COVID recently, but when I tested it came back negative. I had symptoms (fever, aches, cough, fatigue head and chest congestion)… Continue Reading The cure for what ails the heart
I read an article long ago, just a few weeks before my mom passed away. It was on time management and stress. It was written for those of us who make lists and live life by accomplishing the things on those lists. Now, everything on my list is important, right? But this article asked the… Continue Reading To-do lists and proper focus
In the last three weeks we have looked first at nutrition (stocking the pantry of your mind) and in the last two weeks at exercise (towards godliness). By the very word “exercise,” there is an image of movement, but I have observed that there are many in the church who have little or no movement. … Continue Reading Act Now!
