Today is March 17th, better known as St. Patrick’s Day. In some parts of the world, it has become a really important date on the calendar. When I was young, one of my best friends always wore a fleur-de-lis, one…
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Yesterday, we entered the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday, the first day of the 40 days (plus 6 Sundays) before Easter. After Christmas, on January 10th, we started the liturgical period of “Ordinary Time” which ended with the beginning…
Each Thursday morning this spring, I am teaching the book of Exodus to the Soul Sisters, a group of ladies who get together each week most of the year. In case you aren’t familiar with Exodus, it’s the second book…
Here we are in the first several days of the new year. It’s that time of year when people make promises, or resolutions, about how they will act in the new year. Sometimes, this is a new habit, acting a…
Wonderful friends of ours presented Janet and me with a great gift for the Christmas season. It is a set of ornaments depicting the twelve days of Christmas – immortalized in the song of the same name. It’s a song…
I was multi-tasking several nights ago – answering emails while the TV was on in the background. Janet was engrossed in some sort of thriller police show and one of the characters volunteered to provide “overwatch” for the rest of…
This Sunday, today, marks the last week of the church calendar for the year, also known as the liturgical year. Next week, the first Sunday of Advent, we begin the new church year – which is as it should be….
Back in the late 1990’s, I started attending post graduate school with the hope of eventually being accepted into seminary. Sure enough, when I finally applied, I was accepted and spent more than eight years in various seminaries learning about…
So many times we confuse words that sound alike but have entirely different meanings from one another. Such is the topic of our discussion tonight. The word “paraclete” is one that we don’t use in our modern English very often….
It’s actually Halloween today and one of the things that Janet and I have looked forward to each year is the annual Trunk or Treat event at church. Back when we were growing up, we went door to door collecting…