Getting the call

As part of our Annual Session celebration this year, The American Baptist Churches of New Jersey is putting together a book of pastor testimonies. These are to be based on one of several journey themes, and be limited to 200 words! As my contribution to this project, I wrote about how I got called to…

Meetings Smeetings

I don’t like meetings. The people who know me are currently thinking, “Tell us something we don’t know.” For everyone else, please let me explain why I don’t like meetings 1. Meetings are a form of psychological torture. At least, they are for me. I have no doubt there are people out there for whom…

Tide and Ice

It has been an absolutely stunning week to be living on the banks of the Delaware. As Spring temperatures have begun to break the bitter winter, the ice pack covering the river has started to break up. The ice itself was beautiful, but the remnants even more so 1. The icebergs bobbing on the surface of…

Fiction Tuesday – News at the Stable

As Jeremy passed through the gate his eyes needed a moment to adjust to the change in scenery. While the road had been quite, and quite empty, Water Gap was filled with people. People were entering an leaving what Jeremy supposed were shops. Many were laughing loudly at a street performer set up by the…

Three Days

This is an edited transcript of my sermon on John 2:13-22, entitled “Three Days.” In the text you’ll see the phrase “the Jews” a number of times, this reflects the voice of John’s Gospel in which “the Jews” refers specifically to the Jewish leadership which opposed Jesus during his Earthly ministry, not to the Jewish…

Screen Flow demonstration

I obtained a license of Screen Flow as part of the software bundle I picked up last week. This is an excellent piece of screen recording software and I thought I’d demonstrate it for today’s entry. It’s not very intricate, I don’t include audio or camera capture, the content is interesting. This short video demonstrates my…