by pbogs64@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2019 | Church, Discipleship, Learning, Worship
June 25, 2019 Dear Pilgrim Partners, I met with my District Superintendent Monday for our annual supervisory meeting. He reminded me of my pastoral calling as “theologian in residence.” I embrace that calling in every conversation, group discussion, and sermon, as...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve been doing a lot of reading, thinking, and praying about learning to disagree better (as opposed to moving away from each other – literally – and throwing stones from my bubble. Tim Muehlhoff’s “I Beg to Differ: Navigating Difficult...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Feb 28, 2019 | Church
Dear Saints of St. Paul’s, This has been a tumultuous week for United Methodists, during which international delegates to a special General Conference passed (by a 438-384 margin) a Traditional Plan retaining language in our Discipline (first approved in 1972) that...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Feb 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
How to Have Difficult Conversations – Speaking the Truth in Love Polarization threatens to destroy our nation, our communities, churches, and our homes. We don’t know how to explore our disagreements with others, and our fear keeps us separated. Because of...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Jan 19, 2018 | Personal
Near the end of 2017, I enjoyed reading Greg McKeown’s book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. The concept of saying “No” to trivial pursuits in order to embrace one’s calling resonated with me, particularly as a firstborn whose...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2017 | Cycling, Personal
As of early February, after successfully completing the Tour of Sufferlandria, 2017, I felt compelled to train and ride a Sufferlandrian Knighthood DO (not an attempt). This involves riding 10 back-to-back video workouts (with no more than 10 minutes break in between...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 15, 2017 | Church, Personal, Psalms, Uncategorized, Worship
One of a series chronicling a Psalm Pilgrimage. Went to bed Monday evening as a winter storm brewed up the east coast – while another storm brewed in my spirit. I had been looking at word clouds on Pinterest – particularly ones from books of the Bible,...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Learning, Psalms, Worship
Reading N.T. Wright’s The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential this morning, I came across the line: …the question is more how we can find our way into their world… (page 6) This is what I’ve been struggling to articulate that happens...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Psalms, Worship
From my Prayer Journal, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 – Advent II Some extraordinary things have been happening with the Psalms, this Advent season. It probably began in earnest when I discovered an instrumental album interpreting Psalm 24 – Lift Up the Gates. That was...
by pbogs64@gmail.com | Mar 3, 2017 | Church, Psalms, Worship
From my Prayer Journal, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 – Advent I Had a breakthrough this am while stumbling on a new/old Psalm find: Ascend – Prayer Instrumentals (meditating on the ten verses of psalm 24 by the contemporary praise band, The Ramp). I already had...
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