What makes your heart race?

What makes your heart race? Not long ago, I thought I saw – my dad!  Maybe it was the flannel shirt like he always wore, and that salt and pepper hair… Dad boxed in high school and his nose was crooked –just like the side profile of the man in front of me...

Pastor’s Pen – April 17, 2011

Holy Places… The church of the Holy Sepulcher is perhaps the most complex space you can ever imagine.  Housed under its roof are at least 6 separate churches/spaces of worship.  The hill of Calvary with its two separate altars; the stone of anointing with its perfumed...

Loving someone more than you love yourself

In the movie, Good Will Hunting, will (played by Matt Damon) is a 20 year old genius who works as a janitor at MIT.  He was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of...

What do you let have the last word in your life?

What do you let have the last word in your life? There are some people who are absolutely driven to get in the last word.  I had a former classmate in High School and College who was like that.  He became a lawyer – which was probably a pretty good fit for him. ...