I’ve been in a funk for the past several weeks — a feeling of fatigue, lethargy, burnout. Few have noticed because I’ve been performing well on Sunday mornings, but I regret that some have experienced my impatience and irritation. Every now and again I find myself in a funk such as this. What’s helping this [...]

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The “you’re getting old” experiences are coming more and more frequently for me, it seems … For instance, at the recent Virginia Synod Assembly Bishop Emeritus Virgil “Buck” Moyer was honored for his years of service to the church, and the special recognition was very well done.  Bishop Moyer brought me into the Virginia Synod [...]

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When I was riding my most recent bicycle “century” last month, I felt a fairly sharp pain in my right hip at about mile 40 that I had to deal with for the next 60 miles. In the course of discovery, I found that the pain became lesser or greater as I slid forward or [...]

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A number of folks have asked for the name of book that I quoted from this past Sunday in the sermon. It was from Rob Bell’s book, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith.  And I have a story to tell about that. The real work of sermon writing is focusing and tightening. The tighter and [...]

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The answer, of course, is: To get to the other side! Now: What is the turtle interested in, on the other side of the road? Well, I don’t know enough about turtles to answer that question. And to the question: Why are so many turtles trying to get to the other side of the road at [...]

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