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From the Pastor
Does faith simplify or reduce uncertainty? A book I’ve been reading had an interesting perspective of life, God, and faith. In the chapter entitled, Guaranteed Uncertainty, the author pushes the reader to explore faith’s relationship to an infinitely uncertain life and an infinitely complex God. He quotes Oswald Chambers in saying, “To be certain of…
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From the Pastor
Thanks for all who have been supportive during my recent foray into the world of Course of Study. And thank you, Steve Richardson, for giving me a break to “reboot” after the classes. With just three classes remaining, I am seeing a Summer 2020 graduation. One of the things my classes have taught me is…
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Framework
Framework is a 7-week sermon series based on the images found in the stained glass windows of St. Andrew’s. How might the windows representing our past also be windows to our future? Come and learn the stories that never grow old. Please join us for this new series, which will begin January 13, 2019.
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Full Circle
A few years ago, I purchased a piece of exercise equipment off craigslist. It served me well until old sports knees reminded me how past excesses can lead to present aches. I posted my equipment for sale on craigslist. It sold in one day…to the person from whom I bought the equipment! It seems he…
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Pastor’s Note
When was the last time you witnessed welkin ringing? (Don’t Google this before you answer the question!) Perhaps the question might be more easily answered if one other question was answered…what is a welkin? Among the thousands of hymns written by Charles Wesley, it is probably a good thing Wesley’s reference to the welkin ringing…
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Pastor’s Note
The word has just been announced: St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church will cease to exist. Who would notice? What difference would it make? Better yet perhaps, why should an article from the Pastor begin with that statement? (Which, by the way, isn’t true.) I think it was Mark Twain who answered rumors of his being…
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From the Pastor
The other day I was talking with someone about the 5 Cups of Coffee class. Admittedly, the title doesn’t give much of a hint as to the content of the class. I would suspect that may be the point made by the creators of the class. All too often church-type classes seem to be about gathering…
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From the Pastor
Back to school things have been on my mind of late. Asking students about the first week of school; getting back into a rhythm of Barbara going to work early; deciding which sporting events, or other activities, to attend; wondering what my next classes will be like. Thinking on the varieties of school things, I…
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From the Pastor
I was recently reading a magazine from an institution of higher learning (OK, I may have heard some of you thinking, “David…higher learning…really?), and I was struck by the “testimonials” of present and former students. I wasn’t struck so much with the power of their testimonies, as I was by just how familiar those testimonials…