Psalm 23 A friend of mind has a story that is an incredibly powerful reminder of the blessing of life. She works for IBM, and one day she was preparing for a business trip. She was booking her flight when her boss asked her to cancel the trip. She argued that it was an important […]
Psalm 23 Tanya and I attended a dinner with some of her coworkers some years ago. Twelve or fifteen of us gathered at the home of the owner of the business. It was an interesting mixture, in terms of faith. We were a combination of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim. The hostess asked me if I […]
Psalm 23 Edward Bowen recently did something that drew a lot of attention in western Pennsylvania. Bowen is 41 years old and is the pastor at Bates Memorial Presbyterian Church in Huntington, West Virginia. Before moving to Huntington he was pastor of Crafton United Presbyterian Church in Crafton, Pennsylvania. Before entering the ministry he was […]
Psalm 23 Does anyone recognize the name Darnell Barton? You may not recognize his name, but many of you will probably know what he did recently. Darnell is a bus driver in Buffalo, New York. Last week, as he was traveling his route, he drove across an overpass bridge, and as he did, he spotted […]
Psalm 23 When I was in seminary, back in the early 80s, one of my professors spoke to our class about money. He told us that at some point in the course of our ministry a good many of us would be earning in six figures (I think he meant to count both sides of […]
Psalm 90:1-4, 10, 12, 14-17 This is a very interesting video clip. It puts our time in this life into perspective in a very creative way – http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/this-is-your-short-life-told-in-jelly-beans We have, on average, 28,835 days in this life (that’s 79 years). Here’s how we spend those years – 8,477 – sleeping. 1,635 – eating, drinking, and […]
Psalm 42 A friend of mine told me about a very powerful, very spiritual moment in their life. Some months after losing a parent, they were driving one day, alone in the car, when the sense of loss suddenly became overwhelming. Stopping the car in the middle of the road, they got out and started […]
October 6, 2013 Psalm 46 We begin a new series of messages this morning, From Our Heart to God’s. It will be four to six weeks and will end with the 23rd psalm, which may take several weeks just for that psalm. Then we will take a few weeks to talk about our personal role […]