Life has and needs limits – the question in time, though, becomes – who’s limits are these? As a pastor, I find people have a way of putting themselves in boxes of their own building. Life rolls by and we build a view of what can and cannot happen based on what we were told and experience, and every […]
Methodist Mending: Our Next Few Years
A couple of nights ago my wife was mending a sweatshirt. It belonged to a fifth grader and he wanted it for a school field trip the next day. He is from a family where the basics do not always get done. Haircuts come a little late. Peace and quiet can be hard to come by. […]
Christian Preparation
God prepares. A consistent tenet of Christianity is how in the midst of change God prepares. While in slavery to Egypt God prepped Moses and the march to freedom he would lead. As Jerusalem fell and a life of exile became Israel’s reality, Daniel and others were made ready to stay faithful in the foreign land. Ultimately in […]