It was one of “those” weeks…..a trial presenting itself from every direction I turned. It started last Sunday when, after 3 weeks of seeking a facilitator for Purpose Driven Life classes, I finally resigned myself to teaching the Sunday session and...
I have been a student of the Matthean Beatitudes scripture since my own Holy Spirit-directed encounter with it several years ago. I have had several conversations with my associate pastor, who prefers the Lukan rendition of “blessings and woes”. He is from...
Tonight I’m watching an intriguing TV drama called “3 lbs”, about a neurosurgeon and the neurology team at a hospital. They are removing the tumor-ridden connecting neurons between the two hemispheres of a woman’s brain. In the story line,...
A Maritime Analogy for Responses to Conflict From “Leadership Essentials for Children’s Ministry” (by Craig Jutila). The author gives a simple analogy about responses to conflict. He describes them as follows: 1.) Battleship response- the conqueror; built to fight and...
I read Bennett J. Sims’ book Servanthood: Leadership for the Third Millenium for a class. In it he tells of one of his pastorates in Maryland where they undertook a construction campaign, using a well known architect. The architect planned a starkly modern...
