Crafting Idols
In the season opener, The Office – Season 4, chaos seems to break loose around Dunder-Mifflin. First Michael, the boss, runs over Meredith with his car. …
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The Gift of Self-Control
Story about sun exposure – how it takes effort and paying attention to keep yourself safe. If you aren’t focusing on the task at hand……
what to do when your faith is shaken
On a television show like “Bones,” faith and reason, science and religion, seem to be inevitably at odds. That is part of the beauty of…
what it means to be a girl friend… and a pastor
This past weekend, I got to hang out with a ton of my friends from college. I felt almost like a completely different person while…
The Gift of Gentleness
What is meekness? Gentleness? The opposite of gentleness is seen in both of our readings today… First, from the book of Kings: 1. Elisha is a…
Lost – the Oldest Game Ever Played?
In the second part of the pilot episode of ABC’s, Lost, we find John Locke sitting on the beach setting up a backgammon board. Young…
The Gift of Goodness
We’ve heard of goody-two-shoes. Good riddance. Goodness gracious great balls of fire. And Goodbye. Things can taste good, we like to read good books and…
The Gift of Kindness
On Monday, a young woman walked into the church and asked to use the telephone. Not a problem, I said. And while she sat in…