Recently, in fact this week, I started my CPE program. CPE is an acronym for Clinical Pastoral Education. At the same time, my pastor is on vacation, I am being the supply pastor for the weekend, a friend of mine is in the hospital and is depressed about a surgery they are having and I … [Read more…]
(This post has been imported from my blogspot account. If you are seeing this, do not fret….My posts will continue still on this site.) Today I make my final post to this blog. Class is quickly coming to an end and so is this project, in one sense. After this semester I will head off … [Read more…]
One of our greatest loss of life in America was due to a forced marched of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. Yes, this was based upon a treaty signed by the Cherokee. However, I do not believe anyone of sound mind can reasonably justify that this treaty was signed in good faith by the U.S. Government nor was … [Read more…]
I am starting to get restless a little at school. We have less than thirty days until school is out. Although I am excited, I am going to miss everyone that will be leaving. We have a strange setup here, kinda, at seminary. The only people I can more or less be guaranteed to see more than a single … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I started to watch the movie, Telling Nicholas, in my Loss and Grief class. The story is of a seven year old boy, whose mother was in one of the Twin Towers of New York, at the time of the 911 attacks. The story is a documentary around the telling of Nicholas that his mother is … [Read more…]
I just got this new site up and running. I thought it would be best to put a new post out. You may notice some issues with some of the past posts of mine. It appears that the import module I used, missed some of the spaces between words. I will go back and … [Read more…]
Okay, so this picture has some words to help out but it does say it all!
As some of you may know, my wife took a new job so that she could move out to Dubuque and be with our family. She has been working at the company for three weeks now. However on Monday she received notice that she was being laid off for one or two weeks. She took … [Read more…]
Jacob: Pastor, I heard from someone today, that Jesus has freed us from the law and thus we can live as we please. Pastor: Well Jacob, you are correct that Jesus has freed us from the law and in a sense, yes we can live as we please. However, I need to ask you something. … [Read more…]
I want to give some background information on a death and then ask some questions for you to ponder and maybe even respond to. I know a man who’s mother died nearly sixteen years ago. She had cancer for several years prior to dying. When she died, she had been living several states away. She … [Read more…]