Reflections on life, faith, church and community in the 21st. Century.
Sept. 2019. This site is undergoing a major review. It will take me a little time to complete this. Please do come back again later.
I am a pastor and a preacher. I offer the contents of this site, not as a conversation with theologians or even other pastors, but to the same sort of audience I have addressed in worship Sunday by Sunday for the past 50 plus years. Even if no one else is served by it, it provides me a place to archive some personal ministry resources and reflections on my life as a pastor. I intend this to be a place where one can reflect on God's grace and explore God's word. It is also a place where one can ponder the spirit of our age and what the Christian faith has to say about it.
I would add the observation that for the past decade I have been joyously engaged in the fellowship of a small congregation with rural roots and many of my observations are reflective of that experience. However, while every congregation has challenges to surmount, I am far from feeling that the smaller church is somehow operating at a disadvantage. In fact, I feel that a smaller congregation has unique opportunities for ministry which larer urban churches might even covet.
Faith that sees you through! From time to time we encounter the stories of people whose faith allows them to resist despair and to hold firm whatever happens. I have begun to collect some of those stories and will add to their number as I encounter more of them. To read what is there now, click on Stories of Faith.
