A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Feb 2, 2020 Mark 5:21-43 In the first few chapters of Mark’s gospel, Jesus has been traveling a lot. Last week, if you recall, he had to calm a storm as they were traveling from the Jewish side of the Sea of Galilee to the…
I read an interesting article in the Sunday NY Times. The Busy Person’s Lies. According to a recent Gallup poll, 61 percent of working Americans don’t feel they have enough time to do what they wanted to do. I commend the article. The author logged how she spent her time for a year, which used 18…
I’ve been doing some good and hard work in counseling ever since I got my original birth certificate and found my birth family a few years ago. One of my recent discoveries is that I have a Voice in my head that tells me things. The Voice isn’t new. It’s been with me for awhile.…
The other day after I hiked in the Boise foothills, I joked with some friends: Two paths diverged on the trail And I, I wondered which one Led to my car. New paths are disorienting. And sometimes you wander down the wrong one for a while. I made it back to my car that day,…
I’ve just returned from a week at Mo Ranch, in the Hill Country of Texas, for a conference called CREDO, a program of the PCUSA Board of Pensions. If my clergy friends get an invitation for this, please accept it. It was a blessing of a week. Here’s their description: A unique conference held in…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho May 11, 2014 Acts 3:1-11 In this text, I noticed how much seeing took place. The unnamed lame man saw Peter and John about to go into the temple. They looked intently at him. They told him to look at them. He fixed his attention…
Despite the title of this post, I promise it is not entirely political. But I’ve been thinking about my body. Because I’ve been running again, by which I mean I have been very slowly jogging for short bursts before my oxygen runs out and I collapse in a pathetic heap. And I have a love/hate…
Glass Overflowing 