“For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law….” How’s that for a “Happy Father’s Day!”? Several times this week, as we read this morning’s scriptures for our staff meeting devotions and when we gathered for the Wednesday Bible study, I’ve […]
Two weeks ago, I began the story of my first night on call as a student chaplain in the hospital. I had begged my way into the internship program because the program supervisor (in training herself) had deemed me too young and inexperienced at first. After working several daytime shifts in the first week on […]
One of my first “hands on” ministry experiences took place during the month-long January term in the middle of my first year of seminary; I turned 23 years old that month. Instead of signing up for a traditional classroom elective course, I had applied for and was barely accepted into, a half unit of what […]
As we have already been reminded this morning a very real and worrisome way, the tongues of fire that suddenly appeared among the apostles gathered all together in one house for Pentecost probably didn’t give them a sense of the spirit, spirit of gentleness. Instead it came, as Acts tells us, with a sound like […]
It is good to be back in worship with you all after a couple of weekends away. I was only actually out of town for one week, but at this time last week, I was still snoozing a bit since we didn’t get home from the Honduras medical mission trip until about midnight the night […]
It wouldn’t have been right for Mary and Mary Magdalene to go to the tomb any earlier than first thing on Sunday morning. They couldn’t travel, especially not to a place where the dead are buried, on the Sabbath. But as soon as there was light on the next day, they made their way to […]
