Driving home today I spotted some Christmas decorations adorning a house around the corner from mine. Prominently displayed in the set up were three words – Peace, Love, and Joy. As decorations go, I’ll take prominent displays of these words over all the inflatable Santa Clauses on the planet. These words also match up nicely…
Category: Pastoring
Pastoral Prayer
And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise…
New life, a reason to give thanks
In the twelve years I’ve been the pastor at Central Baptist Church in Palmyra, the church has been through a great deal. We have lost members to death, moves, and transfer. We’ve seen new friends come, only to be swept away again as their life-situations changed. We’ve struggled with the questions, “Who are we?” and…
Facing Evil
Given last week’s events in Paris and, though less well-known, Beirut and Bagdad, I had to scrap plans for my sermon on Sunday. It was a good sermon, and we’ll talk about evangelism next Sunday, but events required a response. As it so happens, my current series was supposed to come to an end the…
Attacked
Note for NaNoWriMo readers For those who have been reading my NaNoWriMo posts, we will be continuing that journey tomorrow. Today I felt the need to reflect on the violence which has exploded into the world this week. I am grateful for all those who have been enjoying my imagination, please pause with me as…
The Christmas Post, Early
It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to write a post during holiday season which explains how much I really dislike the holiday season. There are a myriad of reasons for this. First I’m an introvert, and the sudden explosion of parties and socials and “fun little get togethers” sets my stress level…
