Category: Weekly Blog

Focus on our future…honor our legacy 

At our last Presbytery meeting (the regional gathering of EPC churches), we received training on congregational health. There are several qualities that characterize healthy, growing churches. One was this: healthy churches are focused on the future, not on the past.  I understand that. I even agree with it. We can’t live in the past. Our […]

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Emotionally healthy

How did your family of origin handle conflict, emotions, and stress? British culture is true to its stereotype – the “stiff upper lip” and “keep calm and carry on” sayings you’ve heard ring true in my personal experience. Handling life and its challenges with poise and perseverance, grace and grit, are the values I inherited.   […]

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To see past life’s distractions, pray together

Short people learn to leap over obstacles. Being short all my life (climbing cabinets, projecting my voice and my personality, lifting heavy stuff both literal and figurative), I can attest with Zacchaeus: obstacles are made to be overcome! In our passage from Luke last week, Zacchaeus was seeking to see Jesus, and once Jesus saw […]

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The role of grandparents in our lives

My wife and I are very proud grandparents of six grandchildren and one on the way that is due in November. We have noticed that our fellow grandparents seem to say that once you have grandchildren, it’s time to take it easy and enjoy spoiling them. We both have recognized, however, that this is not […]

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But Lord, what am I do to about it?

Have you ever wondered what it takes to spark a spiritual awakening in a nation lost in darkness? Picture an era where indulgence and extravagance ruled the day, where people lived for the moment without a thought for eternity. Perhaps the following quote may describe what you are thinking of:  “In cities… parties, fashion shows, […]

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