Children at Play School is almost out! I am sure those of us with school aged kids at home are eagerly anticipating the end of the school year and the opportunity for our children to get a break from homework and… And do what exactly? There are a number of different ideas about what is…
Who Jesus Says He Is One of the more memorable scenes from the gospel accounts includes a question that bears some resemblance to the title of this short note. As it is recorded in Mark 8:27, Jesus asks his disciples: “Who do people say I am?” Two verses later he states it differently: “But what…
A Perfect Resurrection The April 2013 edition of National Geographic just hit the magazine rack at the CVS pharmacy down the street and I had to buy it. On the cover is a painting of a tipped over test tube from which a parade of long gone species is stepping into an empty landscape. The…
As a pastor, I have heard the same question in a multitude of different forms. Does God want me to marry this girl? Is the Lord leading me to take this new job? Is it God’s will for us to pursue adoption? Should I buy a new car or a used one? A more general question lays beneath these and similar…
Every February I write my Pastor’s Note on the theme of love. Perhaps you have caught on? For my February notes I have been working through the description of love found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. So far we have taken some time to consider that love is patient, kind, does not envy and, last year, does not boast. This year we…
As we anticipate “knowing God, his power, and our hope better” (Ephesians 1:17-19) in the new year please join me in praying with a nineteenth century Englishman who truly understood the purpose of theological study. The following is a prayer authored in 1860 by Edward Bouvarie Pusey. He composed this prayer on Easter Sunday of…
Spiritual Fibrillation It may comfort some of you to know that I am certified in both First Aid and CPR. So if any of you were to collapse during a church event, and a doctor were not present, I would be ready and able to (1) survey the scene for safety, (2) check for signs…