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Day 3 for Barclay Press

In Sunday worship, we’ve been going through the book of Acts together. We’ve been spending a few weeks in Acts 10, where God helps Peter realize that the great divide between Jew and Gentile has been broken. I’ve been thinking about how easily we make …

Day 2 for Barclay Press

One of the great benefits of being released to pastoral ministry is the freedom to take time in the day to getaway and hear from God. What’s sad is how relatively infrequently I take advantage of it. I carved a few hours out of my …

Maybe I’m not such a bad parent…

Imagine getting a knock on the door at 1:30 in the morning. It’s a police officer standing there holding your four year old’s hand. “Uh, sir, ma’am…we just found your kid driving your car back home from the video store.” I’m not making this up…

Day 1

So now I’ve got the pressure to write something each and every day for two weeks, right out in the open in front of everybody. It’s bad enough feeling like you have to be entertaining and somewhat profound, but on top of that the Barclay …

Dual purpose blogging

For the next two weeks, I’ve been asked to write each weekday in Barclay Press’ “A Daily Journal.” I’ll post everything I write there on this blog…but, I won’t necessarily post everything here over there. So, in other words, THIS one is the cool, authorized, …

God can do what God wants!

Here’s a link to the message I’m giving today, from Acts 10: 9-23.

What will it look like?

I continue to think about the future at Newberg Friends. Here’s what I wrote today in my annual self-evaluation for the elders: Several people are talking about a new/different type of service. There are many different visions for that which need refining and discerning, as …

Author: Gregg Koskela