With approximately two feet of snow on the ground, winter is getting old, fast! Â The majority of the wind-swept storm systems come from the northwest and most of the south-facing roof surface of the church building has been covered with drifts three to five feet thick! Â Even with all of the effort to pull snow […]
To the members and friends of First Baptist Church of Edinboro. Â The message of the morning was a sincere and honest effort to properly address the void that people fill in all sorts of ways. Â They feel they are missing out, or lacking enlightenment, as if the worst sin that could possibly be committed is […]
It’s been a rainy summer, so to be honest, when the kids’ first week of school came, my thoughts were, “No Way! Â Did summer ever arrive?” (Technically, Â it’s summer for a few more weeks, but try telling my kids that.) Â For us, the rain means more mowing than we expected… AND more mosquitoes! Â I’m totally […]
The weather did not cooperate with our summer vacation plans. It was rainy. Â It was windy. Â It was cold. Â Perhaps this sounds like a complaint. Let’s just say that after a week of being cooped up in a Canadian cottage on a lake, two coat-clad cottagers communicated that it was the cloudiest, coldest week that […]
This will be a long post about my “stream of consciousness” attempt at sermonizing Psalm 103. Â Stated succinctly, Psalm 103 adds to the good understanding that we have been building about God from Exodus. I began Sunday’s sermon with a joke. Â A man’s daughter returned to elementary school after the both of them went […]
Exodus 3 again fills my thoughts. Â As we approach Vacation Bible School, I am reminded of the tenderness of the youthful mind and recognize how some secularists want to take the tender soft flesh of a child’s heart & mind and flash cook it into jerky permeated with their saltiness (preserved from the taint of […]
The effect of opening the Book of Exodus has been, for me, the opportunity to let God “speak for Himself.” Â Today’s voices (especially the secularist “enlightened moderns” as Dawkins calls them) are dismissive. Â They are the shouters, hell-bent on “shouting down” any dissenting voice with their rantings against any public expression of faith in God […]
The connection of Creation with Covenant is seen in Exodus 1 where the ancient Hebrews fill the land of Egypt (almost like a Nile flood). Â The language is indisputably repetitious and recapitulates the theme of Creation and its implications for the “sons of Israel” who trace their lineage to Abraham. No. Â I didn’t get that […]
Having recently read The Diary of Anne Frank, I completely understand why there are intervals between entries. Â I was frustrated, Â at times, when reading her diary. Â I wanted to know more: Â more about the family, more about her, more about the political talk around the table, more of the radio news bulletins, but, for Anne, […]
This will be the first “blog” that I’ve ever written, so I want it to be truly foundational. Â I don’t think of myself as one who always says the most important things in the most effective way, but I do try to think important thoughts and mean, in all seriousness, what I say. Â This will […]