I returned Saturday from RevGalBlogPals Big Event 6.0. Rachel Hackenberg led us to to play — and play some more — with the Living Word “In Her [Our] Own Words.” I came back refreshed and inspired and blessed beyond measure! Someone asked me to bring back a picture of me having fun on the trip.…
Some things haven’t changed As a teenager in Baton Rouge, LA — in the mid 1960‘s — our family was a little out of the church-going habit for awhile. A friend kept trying to get me to go to her church. She could talk very enthusiastically about Jesus and salvation and things like that. My…
Hope Shall Bloom Luke 3:7-18; Zephaniah 3:14-20 For Central St. Matthew UCC, New Orleans, LA I confess: I had a hard time with this one. I had a sermon — it was about the hoops we jump through instead of living out hope — but then, 20 little children were killed in their school, along…
Adapted slightly from my church newsletter article archives of December 2010, wherein I offered the following modest proposal: QUIT talking about putting the Christ back into Christmas! (please????) Yes, that’s coming from this pastor, duly ordained as a minister of the gospel, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and — before you ask…
Tidings of Comfort & Joy 