All of Jerusalem? All of us?

This isn’t a journal entry, not a typical one. It’s more of a… reflection, I guess is the right word. We’ve been doing a Bible study at the South Street Cafe (Wednesday evenings at 5:30, and all are welcome) for the past few weeks, and I’ve basically been basing in on...

Something missing this year…

This Christmas is incredibly strange for me.For the past ten years or more I’ve been a pastor during Christmas. Or at least an integral part of a church. When I first entered this process, back before I had taken my Local Pastor’s Licensing School, when I was still...

Church is… boring?

OK, this is hard for me. I’m a life-long Christian, and for most of that time, or at least much of that time, I’ve been a regular church-goer. And now I’m a pastor. I’ve always liked church. I like the history and tradition. I like the gravitas, and the songs, and the...

Simplify? Simply frustrated!

I was in Limestone, Maine, this weekend.Yeah, I was surprised, too.But Lisa had the long weekend off, and Paul has been missing his friends, and we’ve been missing our friends, too, so we made the drive up north for a few days.Nearly 30 years ago I got a cell phone....