Oct 26, 2017
8th in a series by Assistant Pastor Philip Lawton Seventh Day Baptist Church of Shiloh, NJ Check out Phil’s blog at contemplatingkenosis.blogspot.com When we recite the part of the Lord’s Prayer about forgiveness, we often focus on the first half: forgive us our sins. We gloss over the second half about forgiving others. It’s understandable....
Oct 25, 2017
Rev. Carl Greene Hebron SDB Church, PA From Remembering to Doing I loved the old oak tree that grew in the stone wall below my parents’ house. It was a massive tree with five trunks — two of which were climbable for a novice such as I. On one particularly fine day, I had shimmied up the easiest climbing trunk and stood on my favorite...
Sep 26, 2017
Rev. Carl Greene Hebron SDB Church, PA Holy Discontentment As I recall from my youth, we were getting ready for one of the biggest holidays of the year in my hometown of Berlin, NY — something like Groundhog Day, the sort of holiday when all of your 3rd and 4th cousins come to celebrate the festivities. In order to get ready for the day, my brother and I...
Sep 26, 2017
Seventh in a series by Assistant Pastor Philip Lawton at the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Shiloh, NJ. Check out Phil’s blog at contemplatingkenosis.blogspot.com It has been a long summer. I was away from home for most of the summer. I spent a lot of that time thinking about how little we really trust God with everything. How we often think that we can...
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” —James 1:2-4 (ESV) by Linda Lawton Boulder SDB Church, CO Imagine that one minute you are sitting peacefully in your...
by Cheri Appel Palm Desert, CA I joined my sister and her family for supper at her daughter’s house this past week. Afterward we shared a car ride to her home. The subject of the conversation turned to miracles as she shared with me some of the things happening at her church, where she is very involved as the Music Minister. She said if followers of Jesus are...