Ministry

Today, on my sermon blog, I posted the last sermon from my sermon series “How can I keep from Singing?”  The title for the sermon series comes from one of my favorite hymns “My Life Flows On - How Can I keep from Singing.”  I started the series in mid-September and finished in November. The sermon series was my attempt to wrestle with a subject that is at the heart of what I … [Read more...] about How can I keep from Singing?

I was glancing through my twitter when I saw a tweet that made me do a double take.  The tweet contended, “We are abusing our most under-utilized leadership resource.  Double Standards, Women, and the Church…”  The author included a link for his blog.  So then I looked at the blog post and got the impression that the author was referring to women as our most under-utilized … [Read more...] about Are people resources?

“And ya don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction?”  This was the comment by a United Methodist pastor attached to a link a UM clergy Facebook discussion group.  The link was about a wedding officiated by a district superintendent for two female United Methodist pastors.  Obviously creating polity problems on several levels.  Pastors lined up to share their thoughts and … [Read more...] about On the Eve of Possibility

When I was little, my mother would take me to the library almost every week.  My brothers and I were allowed to pick books from the children’s section of Thomas Beaver library.  I loved biographies, books based on old horror movies, and choose your own adventure books.  A choose your own adventure book is one with multiple endings.  At the end of each page, the reader is … [Read more...] about Choose your own adventure

Power is at the heart of this Sunday’s gospel lesson.  Jesus' message about the Good News of the kingdom of God/God’s Reign/God’s way threatened the powers of his day.  You cannot call out the powers of the world, the ways of sin and death, and not expect the powers to react.  Especially when those powers think they are on God’s side (or the gods), but you are contending they … [Read more...] about Power – the real elephant in the room