ENCOURAGEMENT
RE-PLANTING
RE-PLANTING. Five years ago I travelled back to my home state of Washington, to take my Dad’s ashes back home, and to spend some time with friends and family on...
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THE HEAD OF CHRIST
Warner Elias Sallman, a first-generation American (his parents were immigrants from Finland and Sweden), sang in his local church choir in Chicago. It was there he met his wife, Ruth...
THE CHURCH
INDIANA EASTER
It was only a few years ago that I brushed the snow off of my car, with my palm frond from the Palm Sunday worship, I remember thinking to myself,...
ENCOURAGEMENT
PALM SUNDAY DANCE
PALM SUNDAY. I have some wonderful memories associated with this day and time. My Dad was the choir director at my home church, for several years, and Palm Sunday evening...
ENCOURAGEMENT
POT HOLES
I don’t know if you’ve seen the “11 Seasons of Indiana” (here they are, for your information): Winter Fool’s Spring Pot Hole Period Second Winter Spring of Deception/Pot Hole Season...
THE CHURCH
PERSPECTIVE
I am missing Marge and Tom in different ways and at different times each passing year. The grieving doesn’t lessen, it just changes. Marge and Tom are known to me...
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
AGE & INTROSPECTION
That’s what my life is now. I know, that by some standards, I’m still young…but as my Doctor tells me; though my years may be 60 (soon to be 61),...
ENCOURAGEMENT
LEONARDO
We are approaching the Birthday of one of my favorite personalities in all of the world’s artistic history: Leonardo DaVinci (April 15th). One of my personal heroes, Leonardo was one...
THE CHURCH
THE ASHES
LENT: the sacred observance in preparation for the Easter Season and Easter Sunday specifically. LENT, in the early church, was the time that new members prepared themselves for baptism into...
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JAZZ: PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS
As we approach this last Sunday before Lent, sometimes called “Shrove Sunday” – but what we at Central know as “MARDI GRAS SUNDAY” – my thoughts go to one of...