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Steve's Corner
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THANK YOU, STOKLEY CARMICHAEL
August 12, 2020 | Steve
WHAT MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED I have found comfort in occasionally reviewing the many “what might not have happened” events…
Identifying characteristics of a Healthy and Unhealthy Clergy
August 7, 2020 | Steve
HEALTHY VS. UNHEALTHY Test yourself and then take the risk of inviting your governing board to take the test to…
THE 5TH COMMANDMENT AND HONORING A CHURCH’S PAST
August 5, 2020 | Steve
HONORING THE PAST Consider the power of the fifth commandment as an example. “Honor your father and your mother, so…
Laughter Helps Protect Your Health
July 31, 2020 | Steve
Make Laughter a Habit Laughter is about being present. When you laugh you enjoy the here and now. There are…
HEALTHY PASTORS KNOW HOW TO LAUGH
July 29, 2020 | Steve
GO LAUGHS—WHY DON’T YOU? Volume 3 of Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations This third volume of the Healthy Clergy Make…
LAST GIFT OF AN INTERIM
July 24, 2020 | Steve
Remembering the Interim Sometimes it is your final actions that most lingers in the minds of people. Sometimes an interim…
LONELINESS: AN INVISIBLE VIRUS
July 22, 2020 | Steve
AVOIDING A PARALLEL PANDEMIC We are very aware that there is a pandemic that is sweeping the world. It is…
Loving neighbors begins with neighboring clergy
July 17, 2020 | Steve
BUILDING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CLERGY All General Presbyters/Presbytery Executives know the challenge. First, we live in an age of institutional…
GOOD PASTORS KNOW LONELINESS
July 15, 2020 | Steve
IF YOU ARE A GOOD PASTOR, OR IF YOU KNOW ONE Have you thought about why the ministry of the…
GIVE THANKS AND HEAL THE WORLD
July 10, 2020 | Steve
GOSSIP IS NOT ALL BAD I know the Bible is pretty hard on gossip and most churches generally condemn it…
A RACIST CHURCH AND A REDEMPTIVE GOD (part 3)
July 8, 2020 | Steve
AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…
BE AN INDEPENDENT THANKSGIVER
July 4, 2020 | Steve
RECEIVE A GIFT AND GIVE A GIFT TODAY AND THE NEXT TWO DAYS, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AFFIRM FRIENDS AND…
A RACIST CHURCH AND A REDEMPTIVE GOD (part 2)
July 3, 2020 | Steve
RECOGNIZE THE CHURCH’S SCANDAL For Christians to respond to the reality of racism in our lives and in our congregations,…
A RACIST CHURCH AND A REDEMPTIVE GOD (part 1)
July 1, 2020 | Steve
GOD IS NOT DEFEATED BY RACISM What we discover with the cross is that God is not only not defeated…
A Parable of Racism and privilege
June 26, 2020 | Steve
AN EXCERPT FROM THE PLAY “BREAD OF MANY COLORS.” The scene takes place at an officers’ retreat of a consciously…
HOW TO DISCUSS RACISM IN MIXED COMPANY
June 24, 2020 | Steve
WHERE TO BEGIN Ok, so you’ve taken a significant step in establishing a connection with another congregation that is of…
FAITH—SHAME—RACISM
June 23, 2020 | Steve
Repeated because some had a problem accessing it RACISM FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE Unless you are hiding in a cave,…
FAITH, SHAME, & RACISM
June 19, 2020 | Steve
FAITH—SHAME—RACISM Unless you are hiding in a cave, you have watched and listened to this country respond to the issue…
MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST–part two
June 17, 2020 | Steve
The parable continues Abigail enthralled his adult class with her description of her call to be a nun. He assumed…
MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST
June 12, 2020 | Steve
PART ONE MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST Stephen McCutchan Part one David Benedict, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran church,…