Category: Pastors’ Letters

“I just can’t make up my mind!” How often have you said those words or heard someone else say them to you? Difficult decisions can be small or large. It …

Welcome to January 2022! There is so much energy around celebrating the holidays in the month of December that we often forget to extend the same sentiments to its successor, …

Let’s raise a toast to the “ordinary”! Having gone through months of what have been extraordinary events, there is something special about the plain ol’ ordinary. Routines that don’t change …

Every so often I read a sentence that stops me in my tracks. Here is the opening line from a book review: In the deep sea, it is always night …

In telling the story of Jesus’ life and death, it had to be awkward to acknowledge that Peter, the lead disciple, publicly disowned Christ in a moment of weakness. Or …

Back in the 1940s, John Gunther traveled all across America and published a bestseller called Inside U.S.A. He was a reporter with an eye for the unusual details that make …

Where do your emotions reside? Are they things in your head or things you feel in your heart and gut? For most of us, it is likely a combination of …

Everybody loves a good volunteer. You know the person I’m talking about—that one volunteer who is dependable, quick with a smile or to ask “What do you want me to …

My dad never got a chance to go to college. After a short stint in the Navy, he started work at my grandfather’s small family business—a metal plating shop in …

The first Sunday of every month, we celebrate the sacrament of communion. It is a powerful ritual and one that communicates on many levels. I remember being a young boy …