Growth

Dave on June 13th, 2009

I remember the ambivalence of sitting on a hard pew in a small country church as a kid. I actually enjoyed some of the hymns and especially enjoyed getting picked to choose a song or two. But there were a few songs that made me want to run from the room screaming. Some of the [...]

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Dave on January 31st, 2009

My week has been full of appointments at a local hotel where over 600 ‘M’s’ converged for their annual conference. As chaplain/mentor/spiritual director of a few of their teams around the region, I was making good on the fact that they were all in one location.   At any rate, still operating on the schedule [...]

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Dave on January 12th, 2009

My denominational background only acknowledges two sacraments of the church: Baptism & the Lord’s table.  When I mentioned discovering the “sacramental aspects of family life” in my previous post it occurred to me that some may not understand my meaning.   My understanding of a sacramental life is one that sees the relational dynamics of [...]

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