pastor
-
Pray a Prayer of Peace
With everything going on in the world today, I know your prayer list is probably full to overflowing. But I wonder… can I coax you into squeezing ONE MORE group of people onto it? Just for today? Please? Can I… Continue reading
-
Helicopter Prayers
“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.” – Psalm 28:7, NRSV She was tiny. So tiny the bed covers seemed to… Continue reading
-
“Nope. Not you.”
Rejection hurts. “Don’t take it personally,” they say. But sometimes personally is the only way you can take it. It’s like the time I was cut from the eighth-grade basketball team. The first three practices were the tryouts. The day after… Continue reading
-
One Funeral Too Many
Jesus began to weep. (John 11:35, NRSV) Here lately I have been going to entirely too many funerals. OK, I suppose you could say this is just par for the course for people in that “certain” age bracket to which… Continue reading
-
Hearing the Call
“Who is calling, please?” Remember life before there was such a thing as Caller ID? We just blindly answered the phone whenever it rang, trusting that the person on the other end was someone we knew. It never occurred to… Continue reading
Russellings of the Spirit 