Christmas is over. Well, if you go to any shopping center you’ll be convinced that its over! I was at Target today and saw both Valentines and St. Patricks Day items! A week ago the Christmas section was full and bustling and now it has 75% off signs all over![…]
Merry making this Christmas
Grace, Peace and Merry Christmas! I know it’s early for our weekly “Thoughts from Antioch” Blog, but I’m sure many of us will be running a little crazy the rest of this week. So, instead of a Thursday blog post from my favorite coffee shop, I’m sending a Tuesday post[…]
Winter Wonderland
I’m sitting at my favorite coffee shop enjoying a cup of coffee and appreciating the invention of central heat. A minute ago, Bing Crosby was singing Winter Wonderland, which I had to laugh at. Here in Louisville, I’m looking out at snow and about 1/2 an inch of solid ice[…]
A Christmas His-story
Christmas is one day. We, in the western part of human civilization, celebrate this day on December the 25th. We call the time period from Thanksgiving (for us Americans) until December the 25th, theChristmas season. If we’re really generous we’ll include the week following Christmas but we’ll call it something[…]
Merciful Heavens
Last week we started a new series called Miserable Mercy. On Sunday night we shared that Mercy is a gift of relationship. You can’t give mercy until you receive mercy – without receiving mercy we may give compassion or leniency but it’s not truly mercy. We said that mercy was[…]
I’m not a political person..
I’m not a political person. It’s true. In fact, I’d say that in recent years I’ve become more and more disenfranchised by the idea of politics in general. Growing up in central Florida we were part of a group that was political. It was almost as engaging as sunday morning[…]
Infection
I was at a meeting this week with several other clergy and lay members of our conference. We were talking about the church in general, but specifically about how the church is engaging in younger generations. It was a really great conversation, but as we talked someone brought about the[…]
Taking a risk
This past week has been a blur! I’ve been coming and going and running and trying to sleep when I get a chance. I’m usually busy, but this this week has been on overdrive. Even today, Thursday, my favorite day of the week, I’m finding my schedule overloaded. I’m currently[…]
the end of Acts???
The last 6 weeks have been a whirlwind! I didn’t even realize that they had passed so quickly until my boys brought home their first report cards! Wow! Life in general the last 6 weeks has flown by, yet if you’ve been following this blog, the last 6 weeks have[…]
Acts – a blessing that turned my anger
Monday night I had a really angry dream. Afterwards, I woke up angry and a general feeling of grumpiness just kind of stuck with me. I was running on the treadmill and each step was an anger inducing motion. I thought it would go away after the 3rd mile, but[…]