Why I Play With Toys

Visit my office and you will find a number of toys.  [Do you know any pastors?  Visit their office.  If they don’t have toys, get them some.] My toys are ready for play, and sometimes they help relieve stress, break the ice, pass the time, but mostly they are reminders. Reminders of what? Reminders that life […]

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A Cancer Prayer

Yesterday I had the opportunity to celebrate with Cancer Survivors as we recognized National Cancer Survivors Day.  Worship was lively.  The atmosphere was charged with hope.  The butterflies were shocked. (We release butterflies as a sign  and symbol of hope and freedom.  Fact: butterflies don’t like the cold). I composed a prayer for our worship […]

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The Art of Timing

We like banana bread at my house. Not the kind with nuts in it, that’s just gross.  No, we like warm, out-of-the-oven, just a bit squishy banana bread.  You know the kind with the sticky brown crust and the golden, freckled-with-banana-bits insides? If I can state the obvious, the key to really great banana bread […]

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