One More Piece of Unsolicited Advice

     I had one too many examples yesterday.  Here’s the "Ask Pastor Tim" scenario that didn’t make the cut for Sunday’s sermon: (read more)

Not If, But When, the Crisis Comes

          One of the best Bible commentators alive today is N.T. Wright or Tom Wright.  When reflecting on the parable of the wise and foolish maidens, he wrote this:...

What I wanted to say

but ran out of time this Sunday

Here is the benediction I was going to use before discovering the excellent MLK Jr. video. 

The Storm that Comes To Us as Helplessness

I want to share with you a small portion of my conversation with Artificial Intelligence online.  Some of you know, I use Chat-GPT as a thoughtful sounding board for the questions and insights I’m working with on whatever scriptures I’m studying each week.  What follows is an example of those discussions...

One Final Scene About Scrooge

There was one more scene in Dickens’s novel that reveals something of what has happened to Scrooge over the years.  I did not have time to share it on Sunday, but I believe it reveals a great deal about the regrets in Scrooge’s life....