So, I must admit that I am guilty. I find it easy to be caught up in the maddening maze of voices peddling hate and intolerance; I find it natural to scream back and in doing so I escalate the volume and intensify the hate and intolerance. It creates anxiety, causes stress, and frankly, makes...
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A Few Things that Matter
What kind of clothes are we wearing? I am keenly aware that it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the Christ-followers in our society from the non Christ-followers. I grew up in a denomination where how you dressed and wore your hair was indicative of what church you attended. I discovered, later in...
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Lyrical Beauty
This week’s readings in the One Year Bible featured Psalm 85. This Psalm is a beautiful song of trust and gratitude. But nestled about half way through this particular song is two language-loaded and hope-filled verses: “Unfailing love and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed! Truth springs up from the earth,and righteousness...
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Patience with difficult people. Seriously?
I read these words in the 2nd Letter to Timothy this week: “Again, I say, do not get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. The Lord’s servants must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone.” (2 Timothy 22:23-24a) Those words pricked my heart. (Let me explain what I mean by “pricked my heart.” ...
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“Away from send” otherwise known as FORGIVENESS
The following thoughts are from Guest Blogger: Steven Stillwell. A very thought provoking service and discussion again took place this past Sunday under Pastor Ken’s leadership of “churching” in a different style. The topic of the day: forgiveness. All the considerations and even all the ways we go about forgiving, right through varying degrees to...