Yesterday morning, after the 9:00 service, we heard the first rumors that a Wyoming High School student was killed in a car accident.  We weren’t sure who knew, whether it was just a rumor, or any further details.  Sadly, however, a little while later, it was confirmed that Richard Beck was killed in a car [...]

I recently finished Through the River: Understanding Your Assumptions About Truth by Jon & Mindy Hurst (with Dr. Paul Hiebert).  As the authors themselves note, this is not a hard-core (my words) book about the philosophies of truth, but instead trying to serve as a gateway to help people explore some of the ideas of [...]

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

I often am asked what books I would recommend to help in one’s faith journey.  I’ve been thinking a good bit about this the last few weeks and have come up with an initial list.  Feel free to add books you might recommend as well. These books represent some different periods in my journey, so [...]

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 [...]

I posted this nearly a year ago when my friend’s 3 year old son entered hospice care because of a very rare form of childhood cancer.  With the news that we have received at PCW this week, I felt that the words should be reposted because they speak to me of our call of how [...]

Wrestling with the focus Scripture for this coming Sunday.  We are picking up where we left off in John 6 and this week going with verses 51-61. This is an extremely difficult passage to deal with because of the language that Jesus uses. Here’s the text from The Message: I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came [...]

Was reading this morning in my devotions and began Proverbs.  As you may know, I am reading through the Bible currently using Eugene Peterson’s Message translation.  Psalms was an interesting experience as the language Peterson used to translate gives a very different slant on many of the Psalms.  But today, I came to Proverbs and [...]

A member of PCW lent me his copy of Tribes a few weeks ago and I finally got through it yesterday afternoon.  It is not that it is a difficult or a long read, but I just simply hadn’t had the opportunity to sit down and work through it. As I read the book, I [...]

Many of us have similar memories of parents or grandparents taking summer fruits and going through the long (but oh so worth it) process of making “preserves.”  There is such a wonderful joy of opening up a jar of summer preserves in the middle of winter and getting a taste of what is ahead come [...]