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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…
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From the Pastor
Our Tuesday Bible Study class is making its way through the various ‘minor’ Prophets that finish up the Old Testament. We are studying Amos, and how God speaks through the prophet telling the people of a coming famine, but not just any famine. This hunger will be for “…the words of the Lord.” (Amos 8:11)…
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Pastor Notes
I was reading the 7th Psalm this morning and came across a very straightforward and disturbing verse. It said, “He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.” Those are some strong words. True, but strong. How sad it is when one person’s taste for creating trouble, or havoc, can drive…
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Pastor Notes
I was reading from the book Jesus Is… by Judah Smith the other day about a most-anticipated, yet unfulfilling Easter tradition – the hollow chocolate Easter bunny. Just when you think this will be THE year for the fully loaded version, you take a bite and there it is again…a hollow ear. It caused me to…