I remember when I was young we had tickets to a Yankee game and it was rained out. I was so looking forward to it, I was so excited to go to a major league baseball game. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was. I heard today that we have had 13 consecutive Fridays […]
Begin…Belong…Become…
Last Saturday author/speaker Rachel Held Evans went home to be with the Lord. She was hospitalized two weeks before with flu like symptoms and an urinary tract infection. She was given antibiotics that she had an allergic reaction to and went into seizures. The doctors induced a coma but she was never able to regain […]
Eastertide is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the “great Lord’s Day”. Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter, and, after the Sunday of the Resurrection they are named Second Sunday of Easter, Third Sunday […]
Rome was one of the great world empires in world history. They established their power by a theory known as Pax Romana…”Roman Peace.” it started about the time of Caesar Augustus becoming the Roman emperor in 27 B.C. and ending around the demise of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD. During this time the empire greatly […]
I referred to this on Sunday in my sermon that I preached. I think it bears repeating, so for those who were there it is a bit of “been there, heard that.” Not that it is bad to repeat because I find that people don’t get most of what is said in any one sermon. […]
My mother, Margaret Creange, died on Friday, March 22nd. On Monday, March 25, we held a Memorial Service for her at Cornerstone Church in Wyckoff. They were kind to open their church to us as our church, High Mountain, was just a bit too small to comfortably fit all who attended. We are grateful for […]
This past week, along with ten other members of our Leadership Team and Church Board I attended a two and a half day Transforming Church Retreat outside of Chicago. The retreat was led by well known author Ruth Haley Brown and was a powerful time for each one of us who attended. It was impactful […]
We had a wonderful Ash Wednesday service. We sensed the Lord ‘s presence throughout the night as people encountered God in very real and authentic ways. Through the practice of prayer, reflection, meditation, interaction and the receiving of ashes, people testified, with tears and great emotion, how God spoke to them through these symbolic prayer […]
So the journey begins. For our church It starts off in the darkness of a room filled with imagery and symbolism. The smell of incense permeates the worship space as all the senses are engaged: See Jesus on the cross and images of light and darkness, death and life; Hear the sounds of rocks falling, […]
I have been a follower of Jesus for almost 45 years. I grew up Roman Catholic and started attending the Church of The Nazarene when I was 14 years old. The Church of The Nazarene is considered an “Evangelical” Church. Evangelicalism is considered mainly a Protestant movement that came into existence in the 20th century. […]