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- July 25, 2018
IT HELPS TO LAUGH On my website, www.smccutchan.com, you will find God Laughs–Why Don’t You? : Making Use of Humor in…
, - July 20, 2018
(CONTINUING TO LOOK AT VULNERABILITY AND ANXIETY FROM TED TALK BY BRENE’ BROWN as applied to the pastorate.) HIDING FROM…
, - July 18, 2018
DO YOU LIVE IN AN ANXIOUS SOCIETY? (I am drawing upon Brene’ Brown’s work on vulnerability and applying it to…
, - July 13, 2018
MAJORITY RULES This is an adaption of a community building game adapted to a church community. The set up for…
, , - July 6, 2018
I'm away for a few days, but I offer you this outline that I recently offered a writing class that…
- June 27, 2018
CAN YOU SAVE THE CHURCH? As the early church discovered, you can’t do it alone and you can’t do it…
- June 22, 2018
THE COST OF LISTENING Most churches would agree that they value a pastor who can listen with sensitivity to people…
, - June 20, 2018
DIFFERENT GIFTS BUT SAME SPIRIT As part of Presbytery’s support of our pastor’s spiritual journey, we can build on…
- June 15, 2018
A Sabbath Presbytery Pause in the normal work of a presbytery meeting and ask people to spontaneously respond with a…
- June 13, 2018
Think about how a human church does evangelism. UNASHAMED OF GRACE The Gospels never celebrate the failed behaviors of Peter…
- June 8, 2018
BEGIN WITH THE WISDOM OF JESUS Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount with an image of the type…
- June 6, 2018
A slightly revised version of a joke sent to me by my cousin The Presbyterian church called a meeting…
- June 1, 2018
my theological rant NOT ALL TRUTHS ARE TRUTHFUL In an era of increased individualism and the ease of broadcasting hyperbole…
- May 30, 2018
COMPARE MY LIST TO YOURS In a world that only listens to others make music; the church invites us to…
- May 25, 2018
YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE EXCUSES AM I MISSING SOME? Once when I was sick, the church didn’t visit me,…
- May 23, 2018
WHY INVITE PEOPLE TO WORSHIP We are inviting people to step aside from their daily routines to touch and be…