Long day, but a good one
5:55 a.m. CDT: Got up, missing an hour of sleep that disappeared overnight.
6:30 a.m.: Arrived at First UMC Shelbyville for men’s club breakfast. Discovered that, because I had casually mentioned that I might not be there to help cook, they had made preparations for me not to be there. I normally dice potatoes, but our [...]
Almost Friday
It’s been a long and tiring week, but tonight’s rehearsal went very well, and sort of energized me.
We’ve been behind schedule, for some unavoidable reasons related to illness in the cast, and so we’ve been working hard for the past week. And it’s been busy at work as well. I had been feeling really wrung-out.
John [...]
Graduated, again
Well, it’s been a fine day and a half.
The lay speaking class was excellent. The Rev. De Hennessy was a terrific teacher, and my only regret now is that I didn’t get to know him back when he was stationed in Bedford County. And our class was terrific, including the other three men (David Smith, [...]
Not as urgent as first thought
As a certified United Methodist lay speaker, I must take an advanced class every three years in order to retain my certification. I usually try to take a class every other year or so, so I don’t find myself in a bind. There are various topics, but usually only one or two offered at a [...]
Talents
Our church is doing a Wednesday night Bible study based on the book “Parables From The Back Side,” by J. Ellsworth Kalas. We watch a little introductory video in the form of an interview with Dr. Kalas before each week’s lesson.
I missed the first week of this study, and they ran out of books, so [...]
Not Fade Away
First United Methodist Church, Shelbyville
Palm Sunday – April 5, 2009
Mark 11:1-11 (NRSV)
11:1 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples
11:2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a [...]
Class dismissed
Tonight was the last night of the basic United Methodist lay speaking class I have been teaching since October, and I could not be more thrilled with my three students — Sandra Akins, Wallace Frederick and Caty Robinson. They preached their short sermons this evening, and all three did a fine job. Ann Benson, director [...]
Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s – But Also God’s
First United Methodist Church, Shelbyville
Laity Sunday – October 19, 2008
Matthew 22:15-22 (TNIV)
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way [...]
‘So You Want To Go Back To Egypt’
Mt. Carmel UMC
Sept. 21, 2008
Exodus 16:2-15
16:2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
16:3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you [...]
Lay speaking class
The dates are finally set. I will be teaching the basic (local church) United Methodist lay speaking class at 6 p.m. on Wednesday nights, Oct. 8 through Dec. 17, not including the week of Thanksgiving. The class will be at Scott’s Chapel UMC in Shelbyville. We will have a special wrapup event in January on [...]
Upcoming events
As some of you know, my co-worker Doug Dezotell (who has been an ordained minister but isn’t from a United Methodist background) was called into the United Methodist ministry earlier this year and now pastors Mt. Lebanon UMC. He still works at the paper but is part-time, with the title of newsroom clerk.
Anyway, Doug is [...]
No students … yet
The blogging class I was going to teach, starting next week, at the Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville didn’t “make.”
TTCS advertised the course schedule — without saying who would be teaching what — but I didn’t do anything special to promote the fact that I was going to be teaching the class. Because of one [...]
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