I’m way, way behind in posting the messages from Sunday morning. Here’s today’s. You might want to go to our website and listen to it…lots of people shared some great things in the service. I’ll try to catch up on the back ones this week.
Read MoreBarclay Press #10
Last night I was on a train for a couple of hours (too long a story). With two seats facing two seats, I was knee to knee to knee to knee with a fifty-something man who was working hard on a conversation with the man …
Read MoreBarclay Press #9
I’m grateful today for the team of people I work with, and for the fact that God is faithful. I was reminded today that faithfulness and integrity are not always rewarded in the world we live in, as I listened to a man share his …
Read MoreWhy I’m a Quaker
(This is also Barclay Press #8) I’ve said many times that I’ve found my spiritual home as a Quaker. I identify myself as a Christ-Centered Quaker. I’m going to take a stab at trying to write some of the reasons why. I’ll start with things …
Read MoreBarclay Press #7
Here’s a list of topics I considered writing about, but rejected for lack of anything worthwhile coming together into coherent sentences: 9/11, StrengthsFinder, “an open letter from a pastor to churches everywhere”, why I’m a Quaker, and whether the Oregon Ducks will be able to …
Read MoreBarclay Press #6
Usually, I write these posts for Barclay Press the night before. But last night, a phone call took me to the hospital. So I write this without much to look back upon, and a whole day ahead. As our youngest was getting ready for bed …
Read MoreBarclay Press #5
There are dangers in writing this blog out in the open for everyone to read! I’ve made a commitment to myself to make myself be real, but sometimes that doesn’t mesh so well with also being a pastor. I wasn’t really considering quitting; I was …
Read MoreBarclay Press #4
Today I felt like Gideon touching the wet and the dry fleece. Like Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty, asking God for a sign, and getting a whole truck full of them. As if I were trying to decide between two and four, and I decided …
Read MoreBarclay Press #3
Ok, so I drafted a nice, safe, well crafted post that kept my real feelings at a distance and made for much more palatable reading…and then deleted it. I’ll risk sounding like a whiner and be more honest. Today I pulled a book off my …
Read MoreBarclay Press #2
I’ve said more times than I can count that probably the thing I love best about being a parent is watching my kids develop into their own person. We spent this past weekend at Family Camp at Twin Rocks Friends Camp. My youngest, we’re discovering …
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