Category Archives: Missional Community

Doubts, fears and questions…

This past Sunday at worship on “Doubting Thomas” Sunday. I used the ” ” because I don’t like that name. Thomas is said to have doubted when really all he did was question which is what all of us need to do. Well, this past Sunday I had the ushers pass out a piece of card stockContinue reading “Doubts, fears and questions…”

Are you practicing?

It is that time of year that parents rejoice and some youth don’t like. It is back to school. As if learning is something we only do from Kindergarten through college graduation! If that were only true, the only time we stop learning is when we are dead! And even then I bet we willContinue reading “Are you practicing?”

All things

For I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. I canContinue reading “All things”

Hospitality

This post is part of the June synchroblog that invited bloggers to write about “Hospitality”. And I wondered what is hospitality? Merriam Webster Online defines Hospitality as: :  hospitable treatment, reception, or disposition So hospitality has to do with being hospitable. But what does that mean? Again Merriam Webster Online defines Hospitable as: 1 a :  givenContinue reading “Hospitality”

A Terrifying Thought | …In the Meantime

A blog post from David Lose – click here for his original post A Terrifying Thought So what if all the decline our congregations and denominations have experienced in recent decades has little to do with a failure of leadership (what congregational leaders fear) or changes in theological or political stances (what more conservative churchContinue reading “A Terrifying Thought | …In the Meantime”

Listen!

“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-Life together How many of us listen to each other? Really listen.Continue reading “Listen!”