Ocean City Baptism

Annual Session is over, phew.  This year I got to baptize a member of our community which was great, but almost even better was watching an 89 year old woman wading into the surf assisted by a cane.  Sweet.

From the, “My how…odd” department…

I can now say that I’ve seen the line where Christian organizations must never, ever, cross again in their efforts to make sure donors get credit.  I saw this on the inside of the Men’s room door.  The Women’s room is similarly marked (though, with the credit going to one particular woman). From Annual Session…

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Lecture’s over, the series begins…

Yesterday I did something that I’ve never done as a pastor, I lectured.  I don’t really feel comfortable lecturing in a sermon, which I believe ought to be a meditation on Scripture, but we’re beginning a series that required people to have some “world behind the text” data before we got underway. By lecture I…

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Preaching and Political Speeches…

My Friend Todd asks this question on his blog: “Here’s my main question: does our preaching give way for conversion or does our preaching simply make those who disagree with us disagree more?” You should read his thoughts, they’re good.  I’d give him trackback love – but he seems to have that function disabled for…

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Back Inside…

Well, we had a bit of rain yesterday, and so we moved back inside for worship a week early.  I had anticpated this possiblity, given that Hanna had forecasted to hit all Saturday for a while, and so I put together a presentation to use with worship.  This meant that I got to use Stage…

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One of the reasons I’m still part of ABCNJ

Many of my former Protestant friends wonder why I bother staying in the Protestant fold (you know who you are!).  This is one of the reasons.  The leadership in our region is taking a long look at the state of our churches, and actually proactively moving to address the problems.  This is good work and,…

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