I just celebrated a birthday, my 78th, with my wife and two of our children and their spouses at one of my favorite restaurants, The Marine Room, in LaJolla, California. The restaurant sits directly on the beach and huge spot lights illuminate the waves breaking seemingly just outside the wall of floor-to -ceiling plate glass […]
On Birthdays and Growing Older
Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: Atul Gawande, Birthday, Christianity, Doctor, hold to the good, Hospice, Independent Living, John M. Buchanan, Minister, Patient, Psalm 90, The Marine Room
The Preacher’s Weekly Offering
Teri McDowell Ott, in her insightful reflection in a June issue of Christian Century, “Firm Ground for Ministry: Between the ego’s demands and the urge to hide”, set me to pondering, once again, the mysterious anomaly of preaching. From the earliest days of the church, preaching, proclamation of Gospel has been at the heart of […]
Filed Under: Prayers, Reflections Tagged With: Barbara Brown Taylor, hold to the good, John M. Buchanan, Liturgy, prayer, preaching, Presbyterian, Psalm 90, religion, Spiritual Discipline, Teri McDowell Ott, The Christian Century
Hold to the Good 