One of my devotionals this week asked where am I this Lent season with the way our world is- apocalyptic anxiety, apathetic indifference, or eschatological hope. JD Walt in a seedbed.com daily text this week wrote: “Rather than interpreting the Word of God in light of...
I arrived early at my church one morning this week. It was quiet; staff members had not yet arrived. I sat on a comfortable sofa in the carpeted entry and just listened. I realized that even “quiet” isn’t silent. The renovated building has a life of...
Well over a year and a half ago, early one morning, the Lord awoke me with a single-frame “dream” image. It was a clipboard…..with rays of light glowing around it, like a picture one would see in a child’s first reading readiness worksheets...
Some things can only be said from outside the system. Several trusted advisors (some of them pastors) have offered me comfort and encouragement for having been discontinued from provisional deacon status by The AWFUMC by observing that I am...
A former pastor friend of mine preached powerfully and prophetically, so much so that he got asked to resign from the church about 25 years ago. He said to me that one has to consider where one’s loyalty is…..with Christ, with the people being served in...
As reports come out this week from a meeting of the UMC General Committee on General Conference which is rumored to be being planned for later summer, it reminds me of three years ago ….. when some were optimistic enough to believe the stalemate in the divide...
