Archive for May 10th, 2008

Which to ‘do’? Mother’s Day or Pentecost?

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Tomorrow is both Mother’s Day and Pentecost Sunday.  In planning for the worship service tomorrow, it raised the question, “Which do we do?”
When Pentecost falls later in May and collides with Memorial Day, the question comes around in my thinking again. (I’ll confess: more often than not we just cram all the disparate pieces into […]

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Why I’m going to WhiteBoard

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Churches are inundated every day with advertisements for conferences. Most of the ones that come through my office fail the “3 second test”–if they don’t capture my attention within 3 seconds, they go–unopened–into the trash. But for the few that pass that test, I have some questions I ask as I try […]

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