Encouraging, challenging and equipping congregations to thrive spiritually and be apostles for reconciliation
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 the US.” ”Supreme Court sides […]
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, we don’t like to look […]
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 way to Florida to […]
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 forward. Simply put, it […]
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 eleven months of trials and […]
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 over by the ruthlessness of […]
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 are as Americans. We are a […]
From the General Presbyter “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” – Morpheus from the movie The Matrix My daughter is at the impressionable age where she constantly asks me about information she gets on the internet. Some […]
From the General Presbyter Gratitude is not a platitude! Sometimes we are told to just be grateful and thankful for all the blessings, blah, blah, blah, and yet many of us are not feeling the thankful vibe as much. But I am! I want to take this opportunity to thank the churches, the staff and […]
From the General Presbyter It is my honor and privilege to submit a Midweek on Veterans Day. I consider my family “civilian” military. Though my father served in the Army for a short time, he was a career chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. My mother, also a career chemist, worked at […]
