I was reflecting this morning (July 8) on how life is so often a mixture of good and bad, what we want and what we would never choose. July 8 is one of those days where this idea is very much at the forefront of my mind, perhaps especially this year. July 8, 1990 was the […]
Two different sermons
In case you think this post’s title “Two different sermons” is some cutesy thing it isn’t. The Liturgical Sunday for today is the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost but St. Mark’s is having a “Hanging of the Greens” service next Sunday so . . . The Knox Presbyterian Sunday is Pentecost 23 and the St. Mark’s […]
Work is biblical
I like work. I like to work.* I realize that not everyone feels the same way and that’s okay but there are a couple of observations I’d like to make about work. First, work is not a necessary evil because work is not evil. Some work is evil, some is foolish, some is dangerous, etc. […]