If You’re Happy and You Know It
If You’re Happy and You Know It (Luke 6: 17-26) Many of you, like me, grew up in church and as a small child learned what I guess we can call Children’s Praise Songs. [...]
Let’s Go Fishing!
Let’s Go Fishing! (Luke 5: 1-11) It was many years ago when I was a young police officer when I mentioned to one of my training officers that my in-laws lived on Lake Livingston [...]
Speaking Truth to Power
Speaking Truth to Power (Luke 4: 21-30) A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the District Superintendent asked me to consider being the Puget Sound Missional District representative on the Conference Board of [...]
Part Time is Plenty
Part-time is Plenty (1 Corinthians 12: 12-31) I recently finished reading a book that the District Superintendent recommended to me entitled: Part-time is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy, written by part-time pastor Jeffrey MacDonald. [...]
It’s A Gift
It’s A Gift (1 Corinthians 12: 1-11) I remember that time period in between when I was told I was going to be appointed as the certified Lay Minister for Community United Methodist Church [...]
Jesus Is for Everybody
Jesus is for Everybody (Acts 8: 1-17) Back in the Spring of 2008 when I found out I had been offered a position as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Jefferson County I broke the [...]