Midweek Messages

From the General Presbyter Enter the Dinosaur I love to watch archaeologists at work, but I get really impatient when I see them slowly brushing off unearthed bones with a paintbrush. I want to yell at the screen: “Hurry up and free the dinosaur!” Our Strategic Planning progress is much ...
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From the General Presbyter “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, how does your garden grow?” Old English nursery rhyme My neighbor and I share a wire fence she erected because she is growing vegetables on her side. On my side are Hosta’s and random other things that pop up occasionally. Sometimes these ...
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From the General Presbyter Bad Karaoke On my recent vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I reserved an oceanfront condo located within a resort. From my balcony, I could hear children playing in the swimming pool, people laughing while dining outdoors and….bad karaoke! Okay, there were a few people with ...
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From the General Presbyter A colleague recently shared something she heard, that went something like this: “COVID has provided an off ramp for church goers.” Yes, yes it has. And many of you are frustrated that attendance is down, sometimes, way down. I have total respect for those who do ...
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From the General Presbyter I want to first address the faithful pastors in this Presbytery of Baltimore. Please hear me; there is no way you can possibly carry the heavy burdens this world has put on us in these violent and terrible times.  Words often fail in the face of today's ...
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Breathe on us, breath of God and fill us with life anew. God, Divine Love, we come to you anxious, fearful, sorrowful, and angry. We are surrounded by hatred, violence, greed, racism, war, disease, and systems of oppression. The air we breathe is filled with the soot of uncontrollable wildfires ...
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From the General Presbyter “With your whiskey and your water, your sugar and your tea. What are all these crazy questions you’re asking me?” Mama Told Me Not To Come, Three Dog Night I have a colleague that always says, “you have not because you ask not.” When the women ...
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From the General Presbyter Black History Month In 1807, the Presbytery of the Union Synod of Tennessee recommended to the General Assembly in Lexington, Kentucky, that a “slave should be licensed to preach among colored people.” Enter the Rev. John Gloucester, who founded the First African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia ...
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