Reflections on life, faith, church and community in the 21st. Century.
Sept. 2019. This site is undergoing a major review. It will take me a little time to complete this. Please do come back again later.
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I am a pastor and a preacher. I offer the contents of this site, not as a conversation with theologians or even other pastors, but to the same sort of audience I have addressed in worship Sunday by Sunday for the past 50 plus years. Even if no one else is served by it, it provides me a place to archive some personal ministry resources and reflections on my life as a pastor. I intend this to be a place where one can reflect on God's grace and explore God's word. It is also a place where one can ponder the spirit of our age and what the Christian faith has to say about it.
I would add the observation that for the past decade I have been joyously engaged in the fellowship of a small congregation with rural roots and many of my observations are reflective of that experience. However, while every congregation has challenges to surmount, I am far from feeling that the smaller church is somehow operating at a disadvantage. In fact, I feel that a smaller congregation has unique opportunities for ministry which larer urban churches might even covet.
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Faith that sees you through! From time to time we encounter the stories of people whose faith allows them to resist despair and to hold firm whatever happens. I have begun to collect some of those stories and will add to their number as I encounter more of them. To read what is there now, click on Stories of Faith.
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