Pastoral Ponderings

Keep these words that I am commanding you in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home

This month’s Ponderings was shared by a friend of mine. I thought it would work well for our summer edition! More meditations like this can

Be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving  let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 I was

Romans 7:17-25 (MSG) I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; decide not to

My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me. – John 10:27 Yesterday, seminary student Steve Pozzato asked me a question,

11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds

Bona fide: “In good faith, not counterfeit made with earnest intent, sincere” – Merriam- Webster In these days following my Installation, many of you may

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 16:9 Several years ago, when I left a Union job to

“…the people living in darkness have seen a great light” Matthew 4:16 Last week I had a dinner guest challenge religion saying it was all

Let heaven celebrate! Let earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it roar! Let the countryside and everything in it celebrate! Then all the