At the end of Sunday’s sermon, the one about Jesus cleansing a leper, I referred to my tenth grade yearbook picture. Several people have asked to see it, and although it pains me to post it (I’ve saved it under the file name “Yikes!”) here it is, along with the last few paragraphs of the [...]
Archive for February, 2012
My Faith: What people talk about before they die
Posted in Church on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Reblogged from CNN Belief Blog: Editor’s Note: Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain in Massachusetts and the author of “Fumbling: A Pilgrimage Tale of Love, Grief, and Spiritual Renewal on the Camino de Santiago.” By Kerry Egan, Special to CNN As a divinity school student, I had just started working as a student chaplain at a [...]
A Prayer for Your Wedding Night
Posted in Family, tagged angel, Apocrypha, dead, demon, died, killed, night, prayer, Sarah, Tobias, Tobit, wedding on February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I have one of those big study Bibles that includes the Apocrypha, although we Baptists don’t read that part of the Bible very often. It’s more of a Catholic thing, since Catholics include those books in the canon of Holy Scripture. Us? If we look at them at all it’s often only to marvel at [...]
Lust and Evangelism
Posted in Church, tagged daughter, evangelism, Ferrol Sams, God, lust, mother, Muslim, person, thing, wife on February 1, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Years ago I read a book by Ferrol Sams called Run with the Horsemen, in which he describes this scene from a small-town barbershop: “Once Mr. Sam Percy was waiting his turn on a Saturday morning for a haircut and shave. He was making detailed anatomical comments about each and every female who walked down [...]
