I have been reflecting recently about how some key changes in our culture have affected pastoral work over the 30 years. Particularly, I have been documenting lately the decreasing number of natural…
More Thanksgiving Ideas
At our extended family Thanksgiving dinner for the Jones clan yesterday, I received a couple really neat ideas for young families. 1. My niece, Pat, and her family who hosted this year…
Making Thanksgiving Real
Thanksgiving is one of the great holidays of the year. These days when so much is determined by commercial value, it is being swallowed up between Halloween and Christmas. I will do…
Tribute to a Fallen Soldier
I went to the funeral service for Sergeant Ed Bolen of Chittenango today. As I was leaving the cemetery, I saw a reporter interviewing a young man, asking his thoughts. It started…
Audio Bible Link Added
I just discovered a great link for those who like audio Bibles. Thanks to sponsorship by Christian Post, you can now listen to the Bible in NKJV professionally read and actually performed…
New Page Series Created called Visuals
I continue to be challenged by the way our society has become so visually oriented. The new page series – Visuals – is meant to respond to this need by presenting visual…
Plans continue for Community Wesleyan Extreme Makeover 50th Anniversary projects
Tonight the Local Board of Administration (LBA) at its regular monthly meeting voted unanimously to recommend to the upcoming semiannual church conference that our church undertake an Extreme Makeover project as a…
Election 2010 Reactions
Many Christians, including myself, have been praying specifically for these elections. We have been concerned with the moral and spiritual direction of our country as well as the economic one. Today I…
My Results of Fasting and Prayer through Pray & Act
I have been participating in the national Pray & Act emphasis led by Jim Garlow and Chuck Colson. October 30 marked the formal end of this forty-day fasting and prayer effort on…
Celebrating the week Francis Asbury arrived in America
I found a great video clip that tells the story of Francis Asbury. Asbury was an early Methodist leader in the colonies, sent by Wesley himself, and ultimately responsible for the explosive…