Yearning: a feeling of intense longing for something It seems like the year has barely begun, yet Holy Week has already arrived. As I was praying about, and considering different passages for this week, one theme came to my mind again and again: yearning. We will all spend our lives yearning for different things. When
Read MoreWhile President Franklin Roosevelt made the line “nothing to fear but fear itself” famous in his 1933 inaugural address, echoes of the sentiment can be found in earlier writers and poets. Indeed, the sentiment is a fine one. It casts fear as an insubstantial thing, something no more able to harm us than a character
Read More“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry” While the proverb that I have stolen borrowed for the title of this post is familiar to many of you, what you might not know is where the proverb comes from. The original line is from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns,
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The world is in desperate need of many things, another blog by a small church pastor (Bio) is not one of them. So why write one? Primarily, this will be a place for me to share all the things that don’t fit neatly into one of the other categories of life as a small church
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