Pastoral Message: May 2019
During the week of April 12–19, 1919, the congregation of East Liberty Presbyterian Church celebrated their centennial. With the help of people like Georgina Negley, granddaughter of ELPC founding members …
During the week of April 12–19, 1919, the congregation of East Liberty Presbyterian Church celebrated their centennial. With the help of people like Georgina Negley, granddaughter of ELPC founding members …
J. Barrie Shepherd is a talented, retired Presbyterian minister and poet, who recently published a poem called “Remembering.” It starts out with these lines: Where I left the car keys, …
Is Christian faith all-sufficient? The surprising answer is “no.” Faith in God, revealed in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, is certainly important—even fundamental for our lives. …
Presbyterians are part of the Reformed faith tradition. This means we are Protestant churches who trace our history to the Reformation countries (mostly Switzerland, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and the …
Happy New Year. Now what? The start of 2019 is an opportunity to review your life and set some goals for a positive, fruitful year of existence. What are some …
Sometimes in conversations, a person will interrupt the discussion by offering a challenging word, prefaced by the phrase “Let me play the devil’s advocate.” It’s a funny phrase (Side note: …
I think both Steve Jobs and Henry Ford were wrong. There’s an apocryphal saying (wrongly) attributed to Henry Ford, in which he says “If I had asked people what they …
It’s odd that something as straightforward as forgiveness can actually be quite complicated. Saying the words “I forgive you” does not seem like a huge undertaken. But all of us …
Maybe it’s a sign of getting older, of having strong feelings of nostalgia. Maybe it’s a reaction to the breakneck pace of our internet age and Twitter-intoxicated world. For whatever …
“Narrative psychology” is a fancy term for something that all of us do. We all think about the “story of our lives.” We gather at family reunions and tell stories …