Dear Caldwell, Grace and peace to you in these hot, mid-summer days. As we travel this week from Sunday to Sunday, a few quick reminders: – Tuesday from 4-6 pm, you are invited to come to the Prayer Room for a time of quietude. From 5:30-6, a time of group meditation will be offered … …
Dear Caldwell, It is good to be back in the office this week after taking care of some things with my mother in Atlanta last week. What a blessing it is to know that so many aspects of life here lie in such capable hands. While I was away, the First Summer Nights at Caldwell …
Dear Caldwell, For our denomination, it has been a week of reflection on actions taken by our General Assembly. Please keep the PC(USA) in prayer as we seek to balance unity and diversity, serving Christ above all. For your further reading, I’ve posted some links below to some other voices. National and Local Voices on …
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Dear Caldwell, Faith and identity go together, closely intertwined by the hand of our Creator. As people of God, we are called to live out of a particular identity, bearing witness to those around us of who we are and what we believe. In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Jesus refers to this …
Dear Caldwell, Today is a day of celebration for many in the PC(USA) – and also a day of deep prayer. With a voting margin of 75% to 25%, effective immediately, ministers in our denomination have been granted the freedom of conscience on the issue of presiding at marriages of same-gender couples. This permits gay …
Dear Caldwell, For those of you who are following the PC(USA) General Assembly’s work in Detroit this week, I wanted to share several updates. The work of reviewing dozens of overtures (proposed policies) at the committee level has concluded and the business has moved to the floor, where the entire assembly will take up the …
Dear Caldwell, Grace and peace to you this Tuesday. Please be reminded of a few calendar items this week: – Theology on Tap tonight at 7 at Leroy Fox Restaurant in Cotswold (near corner of Providence Road and Sharon Amity) – Caldwell Pride Weekend planning committee tonight 6:30 pm, Shelby – No Yoga tonight or …
Dear Caldwell, In respone to yesterday’s worship and some related requests and conversation, I wanted to share some additional General Assembly resources with you, in case you want to keep track. (As I noted, no major floor votes are scheduled until Thursday and Friday.) Our Transitional General Presbyter Betty Meadows and other Charlotte commissioners will …
Dear Caldwell, As in our Gospel Choir standard, “He’s an on-time God,” our Creator also sent an “on-time” Holy Spirit, whose entrance into the world we celebrated last Sunday. One of the great gifts of the Holy Spirit is that of reconcilliation, the ability through Christ to find unity amid diversity, whether that is diversity …
Dear Caldwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century poet, philsoper and essayist, said: “What lies behind us and ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” (Emphasis mine.) What a great expression of what we have been thinking about as a church family in regard to the “advent of the Holy Spirit” …
