My First Thirty Days as Conference Minister

“Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.”  3 John 5. (New Revised Standard Version – NRSV) “I BELIEVE THE WORLD AIN’T HALF AS BAD AS IT LOOKS.  I BELIEVE MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD.”...

Jesus Was a Poet

“Jesus was a poet.” Those were the first words Bob greeted me with as he came down from upstairs. Not “Good morning” or “Did you sleep well?” but “Jesus was a poet.” I replied, “And don’t you know it.”...

For where two or three are gathered

Matthew 18: 20. “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there with them.” I have several bird feeders outside my kitchen window, with various forms of bird food (and squirrel food, apparently!) that invites a wide variety of birds to flock to my yard. I...

How Are We Communicating?

“For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline”. 2 Timothy 1:7 (New Revised Standard Version Updated) “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope,” Martin Luther King Jr. Dear...