I had a good time last week. My first “sermon” at the UCC church in Forest Grove, I compressed 40 minutes of great material into something like 15 in order to please the communion gods, which is to say there was a lot of stuff going on in the service already. Click here if you’re interested in seeing what I had to say.
Our pastor, Dick Kroll, likes to entertain the congregation’s announcements as a part of worship–23 minutes of them last week–and I suppose the practice is well received by most folks attending. But it puts a press on the other elements of the service and who could have stood a 45 minute message anyway, right?
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Posted 3 years, 12 months ago at 3:36 pm. 1 comment
Well, I did my first day. Brought my pictures in, moved the furniture around, plugged in a radio and a couple of light bulbs and then sat there, not knowing what to do. Despite a good showing on Sunday–click here for the text of my first sermon at Forest Grove UCC–I had too little on my plate to get involved in the church’s ministry and not near enough wind in my lungs to get moving. I don’t know what I’ve got, but the doctor will hopefully figure it out Wednesday.
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Posted 4 years ago at 8:28 pm. 1 comment
Okay, maybe not my “hero,” but surely a guide.
To celebrate the two year anniversary of his first cancer surgery, my good friend and martial arts mentor Dave McNeill climbed Job’s Peak (10,630 feet). Dave lives in Minden, Nevada. The nearby peak is in Alpine County, California and is a pretty mountain to look at, if you catch my drift.
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Posted 4 years ago at 10:04 pm. Add a comment
For a lot of us, the words “my Alfa” have special meaning. It’s not like saying “my Ford, Dodge or Chevrolet.” An Alfa is an Italian car and with it come all of the ideosyncracies. Wierd wiring. A paper thin frame and metal. Lots of vibration and noise and the distinct sense that if things don’t go your way, at any point you might actually die.
The sign of a happy Alfa owner? The bugs in his or her teeth as they go whizzing by. The shape of his bank account? Empty. It’s hard to explain.
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Posted 4 years ago at 2:37 pm. 3 comments