“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

A Favorite Christmas Musing – Babies Do Not Know Sin

2015-12-20T23:41:01-05:00December 20th, 2015|Favorite Christmas Musings, Uncategorized|

Do you know that babies do not know sin? A number of years ago, my colleague co-pastor and I divided up the list of families we knew who were going through hard times and needed the support of the church. We had some baskets of food, and wrapped presents for the kids, and even a little bit of money to help them out at the holidays. One of the families I visited that year wasn’t much of a family. It was just a young girl who lived with her on-again, off-again drug-addicted boyfriend. She had a drug problem too. [READ MORE]

A Favorite Christmas Musing – Swaddling Cloths

2016-10-13T10:43:03-04:00December 19th, 2015|Favorite Christmas Musings, Uncategorized|

It was just about midnight on Christmas Eve and everyone was commenting on what a beautiful service it had been – with joyful Christmas carols, the telling of the Christmas story, a wonderful message preached, and the glorious service of candle lighting and the singing of “Silent Night.” Everyone was happy. Everyone except Hazel. I was just a seminary student at the time and I don’t know why she picked me to complain to, but Hazel caught up to me out in the narthex of this big Methodist Church. She got right up in my face and I thought [READ MORE]

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