Musings on Faith, Culture and ADHD
Exodus 20:1-20 Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time October 5, 2014 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the Sermon I get my hometown newspaper, the Flint Journal via email daily. Like a lot of newspapers, the Journal prints a physical copy only four days a week, so a lot of what they do is... Continue Reading →
Joshua 24:1-25 Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time October 12, 2014 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the sermon Every presidential election is always kind of a silly season in America. People hear what a candidate says and it becomes fodder for the opposing side for weeks. Certain phrases enter the body politic and... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is Columbus Day. Like a lot of folk, I never gave the holiday much thought over the years. But I have paid attention of it over the last few years and I've come to dread the day. Tomorrow, when I look at my Facebook or Twitter feed, I will see a number of posts... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Z0FchdKfI One of the things that my denomination, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is trying to do better is helping people understand the context in which they are to be church. An initiative, the Landscape for Mission has come out that helps people explain the changing society that we find ourselves in and insight... Continue Reading →
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time September 28, 2014 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the Sermon. Where have you seen God today? Last year, in the midst of getting my parents moved to their apartment, Daniel and I took a mini vacation around places in Michigan and Ohio. We stopped at the Henry... Continue Reading →
Genesis 39:1-23 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 21, 2014 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the Sermon. Before we go into today’s text, some backstory. Joseph was the son of Jacob who happened to be the grandson of Abraham. He was the youngest of Jacob’s sons. Being an only child, I’ve never totally... Continue Reading →
Note: I need to say that this blog post is NOT an endorsement of corporal punishment. The post is reflecting the some of the more complex emotions on this sensitive issue. When the news first broke about Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson being indicted for physically abusing his child, my “official” belief was that... Continue Reading →
Genesis 12:1-9 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to this sermon. When I was a kid growing up in Michigan, I loved when we went on vacation. We almost always drove to where we were going: Ohio to some of the amusement parks, Northern Michigan or Louisiana to visit my... Continue Reading →
When I was in journalism class in high school, I remember seeing a poster in the teacher's classroom that caught my attention. It was one of those posters that shows something like a big sky or the stars at night. At the bottom of the poster were these words: "God Is A Concept." I really... Continue Reading →
The story of our youth is not a nice sweet story. It’s a disturbing story. God judges creation and the body count is more than any Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
The Clockwork Pastor 