Love to Tell the Story

Of the many resolutions we can make for the new year, the first and best we can make for our spiritual life is to remember that we are God's own!

As the Christmas season becomes the season of Epiphany, it's time for celebrating the light that has come into the world in Jesus Christ!

Old Simeon's proclamation upon holding the newborn Christ Child reminds you and me that Jesus' story -- and ours -- is just beginning!

An East Church Christmas Eve meditation about God's great gift... and our response to it!

Not only is it among the most prominent “Proclamations” heard throughout  the story of Christmas, it’s perhaps one of the most important of all:  “Fear Not!”

Memories of a long-ago Sunday School Christmas Pageant... and what it reveals about true Christmas!

Even (and especially!) at Christmas life can seem enveloped in discouragement; that’s why it’s such good news that Jesus himself reminds us to go and tell what we see and hear!  

Isaiah's promise of a Child who will be named "Wonderful Counselor" speaks to our great need to have someone who truly "gets" us and wants the best for us!

Continuing a series of messages about the "Proclamations" of the season, "preparing the way" for Emmanuel's coming means getting the world ready... and ourselves!

About the season of Advent and times spent sitting on a log deep in the Maine woods!

Advent is a season of waiting... but not just waiting around!  Beginning a series of messages about the "Proclamations" of the season!

About Thanksgiving as the joyful remembrance of the One who is the true source of all of our blessings!

Some thoughts of one of the great "sides" of Thanksgiving Dinner, and how out of great difficulty often comes something of meaning and joy!

Each one of us is seeking to be, as the Bible puts it, “justified” in life and most especially before God. The question is, how do we get there?

Going  “above and beyond” in life and by faith has a real way of changing things for the better!

Stewardship Sunday memories... and being blessed "in the doing!"

In times of losing heart, Jesus teaches us that the better gift, the greater answer, the fuller purpose awaits those who pray continually and keep the faith!

Some thoughts on the beauty of autumn in New Hampshire... and the wonder of its Creator!

In times such as these, we can take comfort in God’s plan and promise for us!

To truly live our lives faithfully requires having God's Law written upon our hearts!

In life and faith, it's not the destination but the journey that matters... but oftentimes the journey takes us right through all the briars and brambles of that life!

Memories of my first pastoral call and our shared work of hope and caring on God’s behalf!

When  it comes to faith, it’s not the destination, but it's the journey of service and servanthood that matters! 

In times such as these, the best thing that we can do as people beloved of God is to keep an attitude of joy, faith and love as we seek to be imitators of Jesus Christ.

Wisdom is good and greatly to be desired, but to ignore wisdom carries with it dire and negative consequences!