Monthly Archives: November 2006
The Death of Robert Altman
The film world, and in particular, American cinema, has lost a giant. Robert Altman died yesterday at the age of 81, leaving behind a huge, and mostly wonderful, body of work. Like many self-proclaimed movie buffs, I enjoyed Altman’s films and looked forward to their releases. My favorite Altman films include: Short Cuts, Nashville, M*A*S*H, [...]
Forgetting God – Abraham Lincoln
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and [...]
Worship Ideas for Christ the King Sunday, Year B – 2006
I will probably open the worship service with a reading of the passage from Revelation. And for those of you more stringently liturgical, let me say that I have never like reading all of the scripture passages in row – it’s like Bible overload/overdose, if you ask me. So I usually spread the scriptures throughout [...]
Daily Lectionary Readings and Devotion for Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Here are the Scriptures for Tuesday, November 21, 2006. To read a passage, just click on it. Psalm 97, 99, and/or 100 - AM Psalm 94, and/or 95 - PM Hab. 3:1-10(11-15)16-18 James 3:1-12 Luke 17:1-10 Today’s Featured Passage: James 3:5-8 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a [...]
My Paraphrases of Sunday’s Scripture – Christ the King
Here are my paraphrases of this coming Sunday’s scripture lessons. I am using the lessons from Daniel and Psalm 93 (from the Book of Common Prayer) rather than the Revised Common Lectionary passages from 2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132:1-12. Daniel and Psalm 93 seem a better fit to me for Christ the King Sunday. Tomorrow I hope to [...]
How to Be Good – My Sermon for Sunday, November 19, 2006
Dennis the Menace is kneeling by his bed,saying his evening prayers as his mother looks on.“And dear Lord,” he says, “if you can’t make me good,can you at least fix it so that Mom don’t care? If you can’t make me good . . . What do we do about the problem of sin?This is [...]
To Embrace or Reject- Abraham Lincoln
“The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 1, p. 484, Rutgers University Press [...]
I Guess I Have a Long Way to Go to Get an "A"
I saw this over on Julie’s Lone Prairie Blog and just had to see where I stacked up compared to the world’s blogging elite. Not to well, it seems. I am used to being an “A” student, but when it comes to blogging, it appears I have a ways to go. Oh well, as time [...]
November 12th – The 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
Here I am sitting at the High Street Diner in Pottstown, PA. I have just finished eating something that passes for breakfast in this restaurant, and I have also reviewed my sermon for the fourth or fifth time this morning. Unfortunately for me, it is now only 7:00 am. I severely overestimated the time I [...]
Something Fishy is Going Down in Waldenburg, Arkansas
from the Daily Kos Randy Wooten, candidate for mayor of Waldenburg, Ark., received NO votes in the election, yet he knows he voted for himself, according to AP: Wooten got the news from his wife, Roxanne, who went to City Hall on Wednesday to see the election results. “She saw my name with zero votes [...]
