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[…]
Conspire Fully!
Grace, Peace and the warmest of blessings to you on this very cold Wednesday morning! I hope you can find a great cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate to enjoy, wherever you are! I downloaded an album the other day that, to be honest, I didn’t quite know if[…]
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[…]
Watching for Hope,
Happy Thanksgiving! On the 25th, we will once again take time to have our annual meal of thanks. Turkey, Sweet Potato Casserole, Green Beans, Cranberry sauce, gravy, pies and a whole lot of other foods that we will consume and then head to the couch for football and turkey induced[…]
Rainy Day Mercy
It’s rainy today here in Louisville. Don’t get me wrong, I know we need the rain and at times I even enjoy a good rainy day, but today I’m wishing it was sunny. I realized several years ago that I’m one of those solar-powered individuals. I need to see the[…]
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[…]