Church is not for Saints it’s for Sinners If you hang around preachers long enough you hear a lot of pithy sayings. This is one of my favorites. The church is not a museum for Saints. It’s a hospital for sinners. Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” […]
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The Great Outdoors Our own state park We are blessed to own a piece of The Great Outdoors. I like to say “we have our own State Park. If you have not been so blessed there are many beautiful State and Federal Parks to visit. I have heard ,any people from any places say they
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I keep a file in my brain that I call “I didn’t know that was in there!” it’s for passages of scripture that I find by surprise. Perhaps some of you are like me and have read the Bible for years. Then stories have become so familiar you think you know them well. It
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Arriving at the Other Shore My new friend Bret is a priest with the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC). As a recent convert to that denomination I have been watching the daily noon service from The Cathedral of Christ the King in Selma, Alabama. On Thursday Bret was preaching. The Gospel was from Mark, chapter
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Healing Prayer can be both a simple and nuanced practice. In our personal daily prayer time we can simply remember to offer a word or two by name of those for whom we care. Like wise we can of course prayer for our selves. “Help” is the simplest. In addition it is good to visualize
There are some very Important Differences that dramatically affect our lives and relationships. They are the differences between: Humility vs Pride Truth vs Lies Gratitude vs lack of appreciation Love vs Indifference The Bible, in Proverbs tells us that pride comes before a fall. Perhaps more emphatically a fall comes after pride. We can have
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What’s Next ? My hero on West Wing Jeb Bartlett by name Would end each meeting by saying the same “What’s next?” he would ask to any one near And move on to the next with narry a fear So now that the Novel is done as can be I ask the same question of
Belonging Years ago my wife and I would go to friends house every week. If memory serves me it was Thursday nights. The draw was to share an evening watching Cheers and eating popcorn. There was a sense of belonging, like the characters who went to a place where “everybody knows your name.” we got
Overcoming the fear of Change. It is as it always has been. Just as Adam said to Eve as they were leaving the Garden, “Don’t worry Dear, we are just going through a period of transition.” Seriously, life is all about change. To be alive is to change. The one thing you can count
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