Category: pastor’s column
Oh boy! There’s lots to be done!
The elders are talking it over, and it’s for all of us to talk it over – what will be the ministry of FCC from here on out? What are new ideas that can come forth out of all the changes?
Get your exercise!
The disciplines such as prayer, study, fasting, meditation, worship, and so on can be regarded as spiritual exercise much in the same way that my above list of sports are forms of physical exercise.
Giving thanks to God through stewardship
Financial stewardship is ultimately an expression of thankfulness to God.
A real challenge in loving an enemy
Like many of us in these United States, I watched with fascination, celebration, and some amount of angst the announcement by Pres. Obama that the world’s no. 1 terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a team of U.S. forces in Pakistan, and the spontaneous outpouring of emotion over that.
On worship as God’s entertainment
It was a wonderful time of celebration on Resurrection Sunday; we had 141 people in worship (11 at sunrise, 130 in the 10:30 service), 3 child dedications, a wonderful dramatic reading by Jim, Ryan, Elaine, and Deb, good music from choir, organ, piano, what I hoped was a provocative Easter sermon – all in all, more »
Anything can happen with construction … or with God
Thoughts from Transitional Pastor Bob Brite: My theology professor, Clark Williamson, once told our class that sometimes God, when working towards a stronger order in creation, has to do some tearing down of the existing order to get the stronger order established. In the midst of that process, chaos happens.
God provides hope amidst helplessness
Part of the Lenten journey for me (or the human one, for that matter) is a struggle to come to terms with my smallness, or insignificance, in the scheme of things.
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