Read this post today from internetmonk.com and felt it was worth reposting.  Some excellent thoughts here as we continue to celebrate the Eastertide season.  Jesus is risen!  He is risen indeed! —— By Chaplain Mike. Many of us in our Christian traditions learned to celebrate Christ’s resurrection on a day—Easter Sunday. Easter is the great [...]

This week we are going to be focusing on the “water” that nurtures our faith journeys. I’ll be focusing pretty heavily on our regular interactions with Scripture. We as Presbyterians do not have a very good reputation (sadly, but honestly) for knowing our Bibles very well. Rather than analyzing what has been, its vital to [...]

For those in my Calvin discussion group this morning, here are the links I mentioned to more information about John Calvin – his life, theology, writings Calvin College – http://www.calvin.edu/about/about_jc.htm CCEL – Christian Classics Ethereal Library – http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/ Institutes online – http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.html Calvin 500 – http://www.calvin500.com

Be the Church Sunday was truly an incredible day in our faith community.  As I write this, it is less than 48 hours since we were commissioned and sent out.  I have heard many stories via phone calls, emails, Facebook postings, and so forth about what took place.  I continue to hear a similar theme [...]

Well, I have finally finished my first Barbara Brown Taylor book.  I have started many of her books before, but until this one, I had never finished.  Not sure why, but it is just how it happened.  Rev. Taylor is a wonderful writer with some wonderful spiritual insights, but I had just not connected well [...]

Growing up, I cannot count the number of times that I rode my bike or walked by myself or with friends down to these three places: A drainage ditch about 10 houses down from my own (right in the middle of the picture between the 2 houses): A duckpond a bit further down: And then [...]

Last Wednesday night, I was at the Massanetta Middle School Conference with about 300 middle school students.  We arrived Tuesday afternoon, had been in our encounter groups, had worshipped together several times, had tons of fun, had met many new friends, and had already seen several clear examples of God at work in our midst. [...]

Having moved twice in the last six months, I think its safe to say that I don’t want to do it again anytime soon.  But we are in our new place and it has been great to get settled into a home that will be ours for the foreseeable future.  I have said this in [...]

My wonderful wife alerted me to a recent issue of Hungry Hearts, a PCUSA journal of spiritual formation.  The issue, as you can see to the right was entitled, “What’s in Your Wallet?” – taking a cue from the credit card ad campaign of the same slogan.  The issue came out last fall as the [...]

As I have noted in several previous posts, I am currently doing a read-through of the Old Testament as my daily devotional time. This morning, I finished the book of 2 Kings. If you are looking for a book with a happy ending, 2 Kings is not it. Chapter 25 (last chapter in the book) [...]