Psalm 118:24 says, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” What a day this is! Here in Charlotte, after many days of rain and gray skies, the sun is shining. Squirrels are scampering. Birds are chirping. We are alive. If you are reading this, then …
How can this be? It seems that we have only just put our Advent wreaths and Christmas decorations away, and here we are entering Lent. Just a few short weeks ago, we marveled and worshiped as “those who dream,” and now we are preparing ourselves to be among those who mourn the passion and death …
Dear Caldwell, As we travel from Sunday to Sunday this week, we walk with Gail’s words from her sermon Sunday, “How long, O Lord? How long?” In the first of four Sundays she will be preaching from Habakkuk, her words resonated as she drew links between the oppression in the times of that Old Testament …
Meditation on the life and witness of Rev. Charles MacDonald / February 5, 2021 / Myers Park Presbyterian Church / Text: Isaiah 43, selected verses It only makes sense that Charlie would have us hear the words of the prophet Isaiah today. I’m not sure what it would have been like to meet the old …
I have a friend who posts those smile-inducing and encouraging words on her social media pages on the first day of each month. It seems like a light-hearted, even silly way to begin each month – except it’s not. With all that has happened in the past year, not only related to Covid, but also …
Dear Caldwell, God has always called some to speak God’s truth. Sometimes we even listen. In the weeks ahead, as part of Black history month, we are invited to hold focus on two prophets at the same time. On Sunday night, all interested can join in reading and discussing the last book written by Rev. …
Dear Caldwell, Tomorrow, our nation makes a turn. We turn from one presidential administration to the other. Of course, it is far more than that. As people of faith, we go to bed tonight with prayers that we as a national people will turn from these days of “alternative truths,” bitter division, violent and once-unimaginable …
Dear Caldwell, One of my favorite old hymns offers these prayerful words: “Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage for the facing of this hour, for the living of these days.” That is my prayer for all of us and our nation amidst anxious hours and days in this time of transition of our nation and …
Dear Church, Tomorrow is Epiphany in our walk of faith. It brings to close the Christmas season and provides a bridge into what the church calendar calls “ordinary time” that leads to Lent in mid-February. For such a big idea – that of “epiphany” as an awakening, a realization that the Divine is breaking through …
Dear Caldwell, Happy New Year! I pray you and those closest to you have found in these days of Christmas both hope and renewal as we receive again God’s greatest gift, Emanuel, God with us in Christ Jesus. We are, on the church calendar, still in the “12 days of Christmas,” so it’s not a …
