Well, now I’ve just laid down the Saturday paper in disgust. Yet another scandal in high places. This time military leader had been exposed for wrong-doing after 26 years of service to God and his country. He is the second-ranking officer out at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida. He was […]
Bertha and Bob
Mercer Chapel on Spring Road was a little white-frame community church. Like thousands of others, a fixture of the American countryside. Set in a cemetery, its patriarchs and matriarchs slept near by. It was a pleasant slow-paced congregation. Volleyball league and Ladies’ Aid. Strawberry suppers and ice-cream socials. Pot-luck dinners and Class parties. Christmas pageants […]
Ida Taylor
I was Ida Taylor’s pastor for a few years. She was not shy about what she liked and didn’t like. She let me know there were some things about me she liked and there were a few things I did or said she was pretty sure she didn’t like. She was real direct about what […]
Tending the Flowers
Dave was working in the flower garden at the church this week. When I saw him there it touched me. It reminded me of a day last summer. I’d been out making some calls and I was walking back into the church with a bottle of water. It was a warm, sunny day. The inner […]
Jobsworth
According to Wikipedia a jobsworth is a person who uses his for her job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner. Sometimes I have used term “gatekeeper mentality” to describe this irritating attitude. Last week we travelled with a group of young people from Evangel […]
What Is Your Gourd?
11:00 AMKen Pierpont; Jonah 4
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