May 11, 2020 Last Friday, Governor Kay Ivey announced new guidelines for her Safer at Home Plan which had the effect of opening many small and close contact businesses effective today. Among the restrictions lifted was the limit on how
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Pandemic Ponderings by the Transitional Executive Presbyter of Sheppards and Lapsley Presbytery April 27, 2020 Dear Friends, It was another robust Sunday of worship yesterday as you again offered up powerful messages of hope and encouragement in this Eastertide. One
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April 20, 2020 Greetings, friends. Yesterday I was privileged and uplifted to listen to about six outstanding sermons on John 20:19-31. Generally, you defended “doubting Thomas” and connected his need to see Jesus and Jesus’ response of “peace be with
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  April 13, 2020 Greetings, friends, Easter Sunday afternoon a pastor friend of mine in Arizona posted on Facebook, “Here’s to the hardest Holy Week ever. Jesus is raised but I have collapsed.” As I participated in so many of
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Greetings, friends, Part of my Coronavirus self-care over the past few weeks has been to re-watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In one powerful scene as the growing darkness spreads throughout middle earth Frodo says to Gandalf, “I wish
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You all astound me! I must have participated in 20 worship services yesterday from all over the presbytery and what wonderful, uplifting services they were! Mind you, these were all being pulled off by pastors, liturgists and musicians whose formal
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