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January 16, 2020

A CRISIS OF PAIN

I was glad to hear my Annual Conference was offering grants to congregations to aid...

January 14, 2020

A Grateful Guy

I worked with a master carpenter. No, I wasn't his apprentice. He worked in a...

January 07, 2020

A New Year's Revolution

The Baptism of the Lord is celebrated the first Sunday after the beginning of Epiphany....

December 2019

December 30, 2019

The Twelve Days Christmas

I like Adam Sandler's song about Hanukkah. I really like the line about it being...

December 26, 2019

A Few More Considerations of The Crisis of The United Methodist Church

A recent blog post here titled "The Crisis of The United Methodist Church" brought some...

December 24, 2019

Bob Crachit's Goose.

Have you ever asked, "What happened to Bob Cratchit's goose?" What do I mean? Let's...

December 14, 2019

Persuasive Words

"They replied, 'Surely you are not also from Galilee are you? Search and you will...

December 09, 2019

Loving Your Calling

This time of the year I remember Andy Anderson. He always sent my family a...

December 04, 2019

We Are Not Racist!

Several years ago I wrote a post titled A Deep Sin where I describe the...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

The Gift of Imagination

It has often been said that Tom Godwin's story The Cold Equations is the best science...

November 20, 2019

The Crisis of The United Methodist Church

Annual Conference this past summer was very different for me than it had been in...

November 10, 2019

THANKSGIVING AS IT WAS

One congregation I served hosted a Thanksgiving meal every year for clients at our local...

November 06, 2019

PATIENCE

It happened again today. What was it? A lesson for me to ponder came to...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

Hungry

One issue I have worked on most in the church is not salvation, theology, interpretation,...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

The Fear of the Ordinary

"There was a man who lost an ax and thought the boy next door stole...

September 24, 2019

The Promise of Generations

I am privileged to have members of "the greatest generation" as my grandparents. I am...

September 20, 2019

Allow For The Children

Garth Brooks is coming to town. It is funny how associations are made in one's...

September 03, 2019

THE SON OF MAN?

The Sunday School teacher will stand before his or her class and ask, "What do...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

AN INHERENT SICKNESS

The church as an institution is an organizational structure that almost everyone believes they are...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

WESLEY'S RULES FOR LIVING (3)

Attend Upon the Ordinances of God The eighteenth century was a time of fertile discovery...

July 16, 2019

WESLEY'S RULES FOR LIVING (2)

Do Good What does it mean to do good? That is an important question. Is...

July 09, 2019

WESLEY'S RULES FOR LIVING (1)

The Wesleyan "General Rules" have been rediscovered in recent years. The late Bishop Rueben Job...

July 01, 2019

Ticket-Punched Christianity

There is a joke that United Methodist pastor's tell. "There is a bird loose in...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

The Changing Life of Prayer

"What is your sermon on this week?" The stand-in secretary asked. "The next beatitude 'Blessed...

June 08, 2019

Being Transcendent

I really enjoyed reading David Bent Hart's book Experiencing God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. A good...

March 2019

March 12, 2019

Celebrating Gnats

"You blind guides! You strain out a gnat and swallow a camel" Matthew 23:24 When...

March 05, 2019

Slavery Not Sex

I was asked a few years ago to give a study on The Bible and...

March 01, 2019

The Need

It is cliché to say that one does not "believe in" organized religion or "needs"...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

MAKE HIM A KING

It was a game. It was a game of cruelty. It was called basilinda. The...

February 18, 2019

FIVE THOUSAND FED BY FIVE THOUSAND?

I find it very important when a story is given to us in each of...