Grace had a nightmare and I’ve been getting her back to sleep. Of course, now I am pretty much awake. Sigh… I’ve had one other thought on my last post on threats. The question rises, of course, whether there are times that threatmaking is appropriate. Take Jennifer’s grandmother for example. She encountered a situation that […]
“Teacher, what is the greatest commandment?” “You should Love God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind, and you should love your meighbor as you love yourself.” I have been around church folk for quite a while now. It started in my early teen years, hanging around a big Southern […]
I just wanted to make sure you knew what one looked like.
Recently Doug, Jen, Will, and others have commented on the rising attacks against all things Emergent by several different evangelical authors. I have hesitated to comment on these concerns as this is really an “inside” conversation rather than a broader one across the traditions. You see, those of us in the so-called “liberal” mainline traditions […]
I was a mediocre student in high school mainly because I wasn’t motivated and I didn’t want to be any better. Back in those days, one could get out of high school with only two math classes. Since math was my least favorite subject, I took the bare minimum — a basic algebra class and […]
I’m trying to do some new and creative things this Lent in our congregation to facilitate spiritual development. With that in mind, I have made arrangements to add a chat room to our website and am planning an online discussion “class” on Tuesdays in Lent at 10:00 p.m. on Spiritual Practices. We are doing a […]
What instant messenger service do you use? I have primarily been using Yahoo Messenger, but know that some are using MSN. Let me know in the comments below.
A Morning Poem
Everybody’s a producer, huh! Okay, the sound effects are being taken off the church web site in the next ten minutes. Thanks for keeping me straight.
I originally said that I was going to keep my Praying the Psalms posts on this site. However, for a variety of reasons, I am changing my mind and setting up a separate space for these posts. You can find the Praying the Psalms posts at http://www.psalmprayers.blogspot.com/
One of the things that we are doing in my congregation is using the season of Lent as a special occasion to reach out to our community in an intentional way. I’ve just put up a new page on our site (www.antiochumc.net) that will be a part of this effort. Let me know what you […]
How does my soul long for you O God? Do I, like the Psalmist, seek after you and thirst for your word, or do I, in fact, run from you, choosing my own way, knowing that you make demands of me that I don’t want to carry out? Am I less like a hot and […]
How does my soul long for you O God? Do I, like the Psalmist, seek after you and thirst for your word, or do I, in fact, run from you, choosing my own way, knowing that you make demands of me that I don’t want to carry out? Am I less like a hot and […]
Well, learning Swishmax is dangerous. Check out the update on my church’s web site (www.antiochumc.net) and click on the “about us” link. Who said a little traditional church can’t get into the world of flash based sites? Now if I just had time to reprogram the rest of the site.
For the past five years we have gathered every January with a group of friends for our annual “Epiphany Party.” Early on, the party was actually held during Epiphany, but more recently it tends to be put off until later in January. The group is made up of persons who are either in ministry, work […]
Hey God, I read this Psalm and think of paranoia. “They’re out to get me.” “There’s an evil right/left wing conspiracy attacking me.” “I always have to watch my back.” I would write off these fears as unhelpful except… I’ve seen colleagues whose ministries are characterized by those fears. They are afraid of saying the […]
Hey God, I read this Psalm and think of paranoia. “They’re out to get me.” “There’s an evil right/left wing conspiracy attacking me.” “I always have to watch my back.” I would write off these fears as unhelpful except… I’ve seen colleagues whose ministries are characterized by those fears. They are afraid of saying the […]
Dear God, I read the words of the Psalmist and wonder what it must be like to be persecuted so much. You see, while I know that there are people who don’t particularly like me, there are people who think I shouldn’t be a minister, there are people who would actively work to undermine my […]
Dear God, I read the words of the Psalmist and wonder what it must be like to be persecuted so much. You see, while I know that there are people who don’t particularly like me, there are people who think I shouldn’t be a minister, there are people who would actively work to undermine my […]
only wonder understands