Most Recent Deaconed Blog Posts

• Middle Class Saints
  Did everyone have a great night “Trick or Treating”? As a child, I remember looking forward to last night for weeks. Part of it was the candy, the idea was to store up enough candy to make it all the way to Thanksgiving. If we made it that long, we were good because Advent and ...
• A Wee Little Man Was He
  For some reason a lot of my childhood is remembered through songs. It should come as no surprise that I know all of the words for the theme song of the TV show Mr. Ed. Did you know that the song has four verses? And I use to know all the words, more out of ...
• Pray at every opportunity
  There is an interesting book that I have often made reference to written by CS Lewis. The book is titled the Screwtape letters and it is an interesting, fictional, insight into the workings and the plannings of the devil. Recently I recommended it and loaned a copy to a friend. It had been a while ...
• Keep it simple
  Here is a little bit of ancient history, every town and city in the Near East in ancient times was normally encircled by ramparts and defended by towers and fortified gates. Reports describing the large, fortified cities of the Canaanites struck fear into the Israelites. The walls of a city were usually of large dimensions, ...
• Nudge, nudge
  A good friend of mine, the pastor of the church that our children grew up in, use to have cute names for some of the “less famous” Sundays in the church calendar. There were the big ones, that already had names like Easter Sunday, and Trinity Sunday but he liked like to talk about, what ...