The Story of the Lost Herd Good Morning Friends, Last Friday some African missionaries from Madagascar shared some time with a small group of us at our Mission and Justice meeting at Presbytery. I helped to send trees there a year ago and have maintained an interest in the place because they are in the … Continue reading The Story of the Lost Herd →

A Personal Faith Good Morning Friends, Our Pastor at church recently confessed that it is not always easy to understand exactly how or why it is that Jesus dying on the cross makes us right with God. I think it was his way of engaging us in discovering the nature of faith. It is a … Continue reading A Personal Faith →

The Long Winding Road My work’s mission of Connecting Leaders to Change Lives and Transform Community has been a gift to me just as has the early rising and reading and patching together of thoughts that form the devotional you are now reading. It has changed me. This morning I thought why not connect in … Continue reading Long Winding Road →

Good Grief with Broken Harps Good Morning Friends, Last night the guys went out as the women’s circle met at church. We talked a lot about fishing but also about the death of a churchman young than us all around the table. Now as I walk outside this morning I see Moon Shadows and it … Continue reading Good Grief with Broken Harps →

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing Good Morning Friends, As the tongues in Washington sealed a deal to continue funding those things we have become accustomed to in the United States, the Lawson Family was back at choir last night. We sang in preparation for the Getty concert on November 1, All Saints’ Day*, … Continue reading O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing →

The Picture of Prayer Good Morning Friends, Things appear to be in a bit of disarray in Washington today as the partial government shutdown looks like it might be expanded. Here we are as a country sorting out what we want vs. what we need. Friends, it is a time for prayer and too few … Continue reading The Picture of Prayer →

Busted Bubbles Three American economists were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for theoretical work that demonstrated the importance — and the limitations — of the idea that markets for assets such as stocks and housing are too efficient for most investors and policymakers to outsmart.   Though they could not … Continue reading Busted Bubbles →

Misers of Light Good Morning Friends, When Christ died on the cross it was as if part of him was placed in us as a light…a little point of light that if combined with others and focused would be a spotlight to shine into the darkness of the world. The challenge is connecting all those … Continue reading Misers of Light →

Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers Good Morning Friends, Ok if I’m a good person, then God should feel good about me. Right? The better I am the more God likes me. Right? I come to church, pay my tithe, do good works, obey God and don’t do any obvious sins God should open up … Continue reading Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers →

Something Beautiful for God Good Morning Friends, The art of living is to get the message of what God is doing in our time and to not be trapped energy in the terrible disconnect that is often the flawed design of the institutional organization of what is called “church” but fails to be a living … Continue reading Something Beautiful →