New Sermon Plug-in Working I am happy to report that I have found a new plug-in called Sermon Manager to replace Sermon Browser. I am learning to use it and have now uploaded…
Wise article from a personal perspective on overcoming sin
This article is a rare gem. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, former tenured professor of English, writes of her own conversion to Christianity and its effect upon her lesbian lifestyle. The best part…
Sermon Texts Temporarily Unavailable
Please excuse the construction in the sermon area of my blog. I have used the plug-in Sermon Browser but for the last year I have been unable to easily post in it. …
Pray for Wise Peacemakers
My heart is filled with grief at the picture of Muslims affiliated with IS lining up Christian Copts for martyrdom. My mind reels. In addition, religiously motivated shootings in Denmark and France…
Having a Mom and Dad is best for children
Research has repeatedly shown that children of same sex relationships are at much greater risk in so many ways. Here is one of the more recent and largest studies to come up…
How to have a good day
That’s a great subject. It would make a great book title. A distinguished and successful pastoral leader I respect named Stan Toler has written a short blog article with four quick points…
A wise article about church evaluation
One of the difficult things church leaders must do is evaluate how the local church is doing. It is not as easy as it sounds and our tendency as leaders is…
2015 Train Fair visit
Sometime during the later years of my service at Kirkville I became an annual visitor at the train show on the NYS Fair Grounds. When I arrived in CT, I was delighted…
Christmas Trains for 2014
How it started One of my hobbies is model trains, specifically, O-gauge trains running around my Christmas tree. Yes we had a Lionel train which we three Jones brothers shared when I…
Sam Visits for Christmas
My Grandson Sam is a hands-on guy. He was not very interested in running the trains, though he did that briefly once or twice. He liked the whistle on the train a…