Rising Strong: Failing and Falling
In this “Rising Strong” series, we have remembered a few things so far about what it means to live as children of the resurrection. First…
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From Everywhere to Everywhere (2.0)
This Sunday, I was making my way back from our bi-annual Global Ministries meeting and so took the opportunity to do a brief rewrite of…
Lots to Brag About
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy wrote this letter of encouragement to people who desperately needed some good news, and my prayer for today is that the…
The Blue Couch #NaBloPoMo
In my sophomore year of college, Brandon asked me to take a road trip with him. We drove to Madison, where his sister was living,…
An Examen for Ministry #NaBloPoMo
Too often, we simply don’t stop to ask questions, to examine our lives. We do things without thinking about the consequences or implications. We do…
Competing Goals
One of my goals for this renewal leave was to cook more meals in the evening for myself and my husband. It is something I…
Delegate!
These are the jobs we are assigned to do as the Church Council, according to the Book of Discipline: Plan and implement all the programs…
It's a coaching problem…
I was recently talking with a colleague about the fear/frustration that church members think we, as the pastors and staff, are the ones who do…