The other day I read a story in the New York Post titled Sucker! A would-be bank robber walked into a Manhattan bank hoping for a sweet payday — but left with nothing but some hard candy when a quick-thinking teller gave him the runaround, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The unidentified robber entered the…
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon…
When you were little, or your kids were little, did anybody ever draw lines on the door post measuring the child’s height from year to year? Why did we do that? We wanted to see how much the child had grown, right? It was fun to see how much healthy development had taken place over…
John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is fairly well known even if it isn’t fairly well read. It’s a retelling of the fall of Adam and Eve and hence humanity from God’s original created perfection. Much less well known, unfortunately, is the sequel, Paradise Regained. Especially striking about the latter poem is its subject —…
This is President’s Weekend when our nation remembers… to buy cars and go on vacation. In addition to those things, we also remember the births of two of our greatest presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both Washington and Lincoln were instrumental in America being the land of freedom that it is today. February 17,…
I had a nice time in Florida both at Red Sox Fantasy Camp, where for the second year in a row my team made it all the way to the championship game only to lose in the finals. Still it was a great week for me to share with my dad filled with a lot…
Recently, Dave and I watched the latest spider man movie. Every few years there is a new Batman or super hero movie out. Maybe the super hero movies are meant to counter the zombie apocalypse movement that’s so popular today. I wonder if people are fascinated with zombies and apocalyptic movies because it’s easier to…
Rev. Steve Youd, Director of Mission and Stewardship for the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts. Steve holds degrees from both Gordon College and Yale University, the latter awarding him the Mersick Preaching Prize. For the past 14 years, Steve has served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson, Massachusetts – – a congregation…
When I went to Boston University School of Theology in the fall of 1986, the first thing they did for incoming students and the faculty and staff was to have us all get on a boat in Boston Harbor and go out to one of the islands and walk around, do an icebreaker exercise to…