As a United Methodist lay speaker, I occasionally get the opporunity to preach to actual churches full of people rather than just the online community that I connect with on Facebook, Twitter and here on Faithrants.com. This morning I was in my home church, First United Methodist of Williamstown, to give a Mother's Day message. … Continue reading A Letter to Mom
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Justice is served?
"Ding-dong, the witch is dead!" Was the last thing he said Before the bullet pierced his head. This morning America woke to the news that Public Enemy #1, Osama bin Laden, is dead. The man behind the most brutal terrorist attack on Americans in our nation's history was removed from this life at the hands … Continue reading Justice is served?
Where good ideas go to die
"Daddy, what happens to good ideas when they die? Do they go to heaven?" "No, honey. They go to church." We've all got them...really good ideas that never become good actions. I'm not talking about those ideas that are really just notions, the thoughts that are always buzzing around in our brains that never really … Continue reading Where good ideas go to die
The discipline of discipline
Yesterday's post about just sitting down to write in order to allow my self to start writing caused me to think deeper about the whole issue of discipline...how we make ourselves do the things we need to do. "Discipline" is not a fun word for us in our current cultural context. It denotes a surrender … Continue reading The discipline of discipline
How do you jumpstart a sputtering blog?
For the past 3 or 4 months, I've had about the most severe case of writer's block I can ever remember. Maybe it's because what little writing I've done lately has by necessity flowed into lesson planning, sermon preparation or study, and also because there's been little if any creative writing involved in my professional life … Continue reading How do you jumpstart a sputtering blog?
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