Most Recent Deaconed Blog Posts

• Lawyering
  As a parent, one of the things that I hated the most was when my kids played lawyer. Do you know what I am talking about? It was when they tried to use the finer points of the law to argue a situation. Did you touch your sister? Noooooo , I didn’t touch her. What ...
• As we get closer to Easter
  If you needed any reminder that next week is Holy Week all that you had to do was read the Gospel from that past few days. The imminent death of Jesus is mentioned in almost every Gospel. The message appears to be that a very vocal segment of the local population appears to be very ...
• Lazarus, Come out
  Remember how hard it was three years ago? We couldn’t go out, couldn’t visit friends, we were having trouble dealing with all of the various restrictions. So, we turned to the one thing that could bring us comfort and consolation and companionship. We turned to binge watching miniseries. Admit it, we are not about judging ...
• The entire first commandment
  In exodus 20 verses 1- 17 are listed the ten commandments. We all know them. We can all conjure up the image of Charlton Heston standing with the two stone tables, one in each arm, after coming down from Mount Sinai. While we may or may not be able to recite all 10, there might ...
• Do you want to be well
  To say that I am a procrastinator would be unfair. I do not procrastinate but I do get easily distracted. The first thing that I do Saturday morning is to come up with a plan for the day. Then I collect my materials, and tools and head off. Somewhere between “heading off” and getting there ...