Last week, the computer mouse on my desk mysteriously fell between the desk and the wall in my office. By “mysteriously”, I mean “was thrown against the wall in frustration over an uncooperative website form I was trying to fill out.” My desk weighs the equivalent of a mid-sized rhinoceros, so usually things go there…
I’ve never been in a true wilderness. I’ve come close, I suppose. When I was a student at Furman University in South Carolina back in the 70’s, there were places in neighboring Pickens County that were pretty remote and where people were few and far between. Nature … and home-made moonshine stills … ruled the…
Email Devotion Week Of Lent 5 By Brendan Armitage “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” (James 1: 2-3) It’s buttery. Just eggs and bread, mind you, but good quality of both, and fresh. Somehow, in…
Lent is in full swing and we’re rapidly approaching the center of the church year, Holy Week. Late in Lent this lectionary year we hear many readings from the gospel of John. Often cited as being the more difficult and ‘heady’ gospel, John emphasizes the depths of Jesus’ authority and personhood where the synoptic…
EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Passion Sunday Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. (Psalm 50:2) The great thing about birds, is that they often have beautiful things within them. The pale blue of the robin’s egg … the emerald sheen of an emu’s egg … and the lavender and brown blotched vulture egg. I…
New Day Sermon Lent 4 The sermon is a combination of the lesson from John with a drama woven throughout. Do you see yourself in any of the characters? We often complain of others not seeing their bad behavior, but many times we are blinded to our own.
