Category: Community

That’s What Lent is For

This has been one of those weeks. Not really one of “those” weeks, nothing terrible, just lots and lots of gray mist through which I’ve been trying to navigate a series of challenges. One thing about moving through this kind of fog—the bright spots seem even brighter. One bright spot came at the very beginning…
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That’s What Lent is For

This has been one of those weeks. Not really one of “those” weeks, nothing terrible, just lots and lots of gray mist through which I’ve been trying to navigate a series of challenges. One thing about moving through this kind of fog—the bright spots seem even brighter. One bright spot came at the very beginning…
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Letting Go

My wife and I recently decided to “clean house.” It’s not like we’re hoarders (unless you count books and organ music), but we’ve lived at the same address for 15 years, experienced the invasion of “things” as our parents’ homes were closed, helped our daughter and son-in-law move in and out of multiple college dwellings…
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The Gospel in Real Life

LAKE MURRAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – A FLOOD RELIEF STORY On Saturday October 3rd and Sunday October 4th, eighteen inches of rain poured into the Midlands of South Carolina, overflowing dams, closing 260 roads and 180 bridges.  Twelve thousand homes were flooded out in what the governor called “A thousand year flood.”  The National Guard would knock on the…
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