January 31, 2012 – 5:58 am
Below are five talks that Dr. James Wagner gave on “The Art of Letting Go.” Letting Go of Our Children (42:07) Letting Go of Our Parents (33:26) Letting Go of Our Younger Selves (31:13) Letting Go of Our Illusions (32:14) The Final Letting Go (39:52) Here is a Sermon that Dr. Wagner preached at [...]
October 16, 2011 – 4:09 am
Reflections on the Expository Lectionary, October 9-16, 2011 Monday Morning Acts 8:14-25 Our journey through Acts has been dealing with Saul of Tarsus. We last encountered Peter in these verses. Peter had dealt with Simon the magician and his desire to pay for the gift of the Holy Spirit. He had a basic misunderstanding of the gospel. [...]
October 16, 2011 – 4:08 am
Reflections on the Expository Lectionary, October 10-16, 2011 Sunday Morning An audio reflection on my translation of Acts 9:23-31: 9:23 And when many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him. 9:24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they also guarded the gates day and night so that they might kill him. 9:25 [...]
Hymn lyrics © Mark E. Ryman, 2004 Special Hymns Another Year is Dawning (New Year) Come Sing Praises to Our Mothers (Mothers’ Day) Wyclyf (John Wycliffe, English Bible translator) Matthew Can We Pledge Our Lives Today?, Matthew 1:18-25 When Jesus had Been Born a King, Matthew 2:13-23 Heaven Comes Near for All Today, Matthew 3:1-12 [...]
March 24, 2011 – 11:17 am
Wow. So hard to find and then I find them by the box. And at half price!
Almost every time I go out to eat, I don’t want anything to drink. “A glass of water then?” No. Nothing. “Not even a glass of water with lemon?” No. No water. No lemon. No thing. Nothing. Thank you. This just fries their minds. In 40 years of doing this I have had two waiters [...]
Tuesday morning was the dreaded day of the Special Olympics Torch Run across Alamance County. Why dreaded? Because I’m an accumulated 55 years of out of shape Police Chaplain…and I run our leg, which is roughly 3 miles across Graham. Now that would not be so bad except I have to run it with these [...]
I thought my church had an auto-renewal deal with the company that produces children’s bulletins. I had asked it to be set up that way when I last renewed and thought it was no problem, that it would continue that way with the card on file until I canceled. But then statements started coming in [...]
Let me be the first to thank the legislature for driving the smokers out of the bars and onto the public sidewalks here in Graham, NC. While my wife and I were walking tonight, we turned the corner at the courthouse on Elm St. and headed up Maple St. Just around the corner there is [...]
“Moving Day” A Funeral Homily for Mary Kathryn Stinchcomb Allender Cutshall 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 March 12, 2010 PDF – Audio When Mary was growing up, she was mobile. Her family moved a lot. After she married Laird Allender and moved into 218 East Madison Avenue, after quite awhile, she wanted to move again. But there [...]