Yesterday a friend send me a song that was pertinent to Palm Sunday, called “Why” It reminded me of a great song by Ray Boltz called “Watch the Lamb” which is similar – the story of the man who carried Jesus’ cross to Calvary. I’ve seen this song performed many times and usually in a [...]
Thus, on the Feast day of St. Stephen (today in the Christian calendar), King Wenceslas looked out his window to see the poor man trying to find sticks and twigs, amongst the winter snow.
How far into healing can a hymn take you? How much closer to realizing the kingdom of God can a single prayer take you? As you know I grew up in the Baptist church (waaay back in the days before they went all Pat-Buchanan-Crazy) and that is where I learned the room-shaking power that the [...]
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While sitting at home taking a sick day today, I awoke from a cough medicine nap into one of those “crime scene investigation” shows on TV. After the crime was solved and the bad guy was sent off to jail there was a very emotional memorial service for the victim. While the scene played out, [...]
Mmmmmm what a week…. Here’s the rub: when you’re a gay preacher/minister, you get a few different types of reactions. Hopefully it’s more of the “oh … cool!” from the people that we feel most called to minister to. Then there’s the “you’re going to Burn in HELL!” crowd who just plain get boring after [...]
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