Midweek Messages

From the General Presbyter “Russia is escalating!” “Another mass shooting!” “Members of Congress embrace Q-Anon.” “Another Black man shot by police!” “Asian hate crimes on the rise.” “When are we going to open our church?” “I don’t want the vaccine.” “Glaciers melting at a rapid rate.” ”New variants arrive in ...
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From the General Presbyter I was driving behind a truck whose tag line was “growth through extraordinary customer service.” Oh, if it were only that simple. I believe many members of churches feel they are getting good “service” from the pastor, members, fellowship, music, education, etc. On the other hand, ...
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From the General Presbyter “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”- Henry David Thoreau I could really just stop there. I am sure you have heard about the shootings at the massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia. A man targeted three businesses and was on his ...
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From the General Presbyter "Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!" John C. Maxwell Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success  – April 1, 2007 I love this term – failing ...
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From the General Presbyter “Lest our feet, stray from the places, our God where we met Thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world we forget Thee.” - Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson Welcome to Lent. It could not come fast enough after these ...
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From the General Presbyter Sometimes other people say it better! “It is a commonplace remark that our lives are surrounded with so much movement, so many pressures, so many demands that our spirits are often crowded into a corner. As soon as we awaken in the morning we are taken ...
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From the General Presbyter “I’ve got my shoes on and I’m ready to get to work.”- Senator Raphael Warnock, first African American Senator from Georgia, sworn in by the new Vice President, Kamala Harris. When then Senator Harris was selected as Joe Biden’s running mate, he asked her, “are you ...
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From the General Presbyter What really amazed me about yesterday's insane, insidious events at the Capitol, stoked by Donald Trump, was that the same Congress members who have enabled Trump and his vitriol, stood up and said "This is not who we are as Americans." This is exactly who we ...
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