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Hey! Good to hear from you! It is just a few weeks until we are all reunited! I can't believe it has been a whole year. Something you said in your post, "how I can't do anything without being connected to the Vine?" reminded me of a sermon I heard once. The pastor pointed out that if you h...

As I read this, I couldn't help but think of King David fleeing Absolam. He fled until he came to the tent of his friend and then he grabbed the tent posts. My reference material tells me that the culture of David's day demanded that you give shelter to whomever grabs the tent posts. The owner of th...

The summary question: "Are we driving our flocks to religious activity or encouraging healthy spiritual productivity?" has been on my mind and when I read it in this devotional, it gave me another chance to think about it. I interviewed at a church recently where an elder asked me, "H...

Not only did Jesus know what it meant to be a sacrifice (unlike those of us today who have never seen one), but he knew who would sacrifice him. This stuck me as I read the devotion today: "We rightly say that neither Romans or Jews killed Jesus...we each put the nails in his hands..." Jes...

I am in a well-organized denomination with a sophisticated hierarchical structure. The structure was meant to be setup to help facilitate the work of pastors and congregations alike. When I first came into this denomination, the head shepherd in my locale who shepherded the pastors took his night wa...

During the years my sons were being born, I became involved with a group of lay midwives who delivered babies in the rual areas of the Shenandoah Mountains. In fact, they were with me for the birth of my youngest son. I hoped I would see the kind of wisdom in the shepherd that I saw in these midwive...