Summer Intern

Today is the first official day on the job for my summer intern. Therefore, it is my first official day on the job as a summer internship supervisor. No pressure. No pressure. I keep telling myself this. I wonder if that mantra will work at some point. The internship is supported through Project Connect which…

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And Still No Old Testament Reading

This past Sunday, while we were passing the peace, the man who was our lector for the day grabbed me and said “There’s no Old Testament reading in the bulletin!” Oh how nice it was that someone in the congregation actually cared about the fact that there was no Old Testament reading! Oh how nice…

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Thoughts On This Rapture Thing

I’ve been reading a lot about this rapture thing and the end of the world that is supposed to be here on Saturday and I have a few thoughts about it. First, I do have to admire the tenacity of the people who are preaching about this and, at least it seems so far, they…

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The Label Maker

This week I purchased a label maker. It’s pretty fancy, too!  I remember the old fashioned label makers of my youth with plastic tape and a little wheel you spun around to the right letter and then you’d squeeze to make the white imprint of the letter on the tape. Not so with this! There’s…

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We Need Not Make Our Home Inside Fear

sermon for Easter 4A     Psalm 23    John 10:1-10 Imagine the scene given to us in our psalm for today. Here is a nice, pretty pastoral picture. Fields of fresh green grass, cool stream of gentle water, happy little sheep grazing, drinking and napping in this picturesque landscape. A shepherd standing by, watching over the little…

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