This Sunday I was back in worship at Central for the first time since departing on Vacation. This was an unusual break for us, as we typically find ourselves in worship at least one of the Sundays I’m off over Summer break – this typically happens because we often travel home a day early to…
Tag: Worship
An unexpected interlude
Yesterday was an unusual Sunday morning. The kids were away at their grandparents, and my wife was down in Williamsburg for their Teacher’s Institute. Also, there was no Sunday school so I had an extra forty-five minutes of actual free-time in the morning. So I did something I’ve never done before on a Sunday Morning….
Unexpected and Welcome
I’ve written about my weariness after “holiday weekends” before, so I won’t bother rehashing that well-worn topic. Suffice to say, however, Independence Day wiped me out. Good times, but exhausting. I woke up Sunday barely awake, wanting little more than to kill my alarm, roll over, and sleep until noon. It was Sunday, however, so…
The Supreme Court comes to Praise Time
Yesterday during our prayer and praise time a gentleman from Central stood up brought up this past week’s Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. When you allow people to share on the fly you never know what’s going to be said, or how people will receive it, so it was with both deep interest and…
Planning Conversation
This past week I had a conversation with some folks who make up the worship circle at Central. We discussed two topics. First, how were we going to lead worship on Sunday’s I’m not present 1. This was handled quickly, and in a way which includes a larger body of folks who said they wanted…
The Gospel in stained glass – Baptism
Jesus’ baptism is, perhaps, one of the most underplayed elements of the Gospel story. Christians seem to enjoy focusing on the amazing willpower of Jesus in resisting the Devil’s temptations in the wilderness, and so gloss over this watershed moment. We shouldn’t do that. Jesus’ baptism is generally regarded as the start of his public…
