How hospitable are the spaces and the places you inhabit and the graces you offer? How do you perceive your role there…….to force out, to keep out, to reach out, or to invite in? How did you get there? Is it a Good Place that is growing and enhancing the...
I had pondered why Jesus was born in the line of Judah instead of that of Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben, as might have been expected based on the Jews’ emphasis on the firstborn’s rights. On the surface of it I didn’t see the rationale. I knew in my spirit that the answer...
After a very full week I took a few hours late Saturday afternoon for self care and enjoying the company of my son and daughter in love as they watched football at my home. I went to bed at 9 with a feeling of contentment. I awoke refreshed and full of anticipation...
Consider this: … it was God who cast satan and the other rebellious, contending, resisting, unhappy angels to the earth among us. We may either join them in their consigned punishment, misery, jealousy, and hatefulness here or we can aspire to the transcendent...
A downtown church in our community started a ministry to the homeless and marginalized in 2014. It was forced to stop following damage from Hurricane Michael in October 2018 while repairs to the building were made. Then Covid interfered with starting back. But now...
The problem with the church, any church, is not the church. It’s the expectations that people bring to the church…. In other words , the ecclesiology of individuals, or what they believe about the church. I worked through my personal ecclesiology in the...
11/1/2020 Reminded of the true gift of hospitality….. ( and thinking of my dear hospitable friend, Pammi Jo Alsip Nevins….. “People tell me they have the gift of hospitality by which they mean that they like dinner parties. They mean that they have (or...
From Nov 5, 2012 ….They’re still among us. Grifter: noun, Slang. Grifter: 1. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction. 2. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like. A “confidence trickster,” 1915,...
The Lord has encouraged me so much since my husband’s illness and death 15 month’s ago. For six months or longer I’ve been being nudged by requests to assist the growing number of widows in our church. I’ve investigated ways to do so but the effort seemed larger than...
A memory of Bill sent by a fried, Liz Parker, today: “I was doing my bible study this morning and written in the top margin of a page in Hebrews was”Bill Byrd-wherever you are spiritually , kick it up a notch.” Well yes sir, I will! So thankful for you and Bill and...
