It is going to be a crazy 22 days!  We’ll be back and forth to Kansas to bring our eldest grandson to Pennsylvania for his annual summer visit, and then back to Kansas to help our son and his family on a long move from near Wichita to Ephrata, Washington.  Christopher has been called to be Assistant Pastor at Community Christian Church (EPC) in Ephrata, and we are delighted with all God has been doing in his life. So back and forth and forth and back.  Crazy 22 days. Crazy and wonderful.

I will be at LPC all Sundays except July 29. Brian Jennings (!!!) is going to bring the message.

When you receive this, I am in Kansas waiting to return to Langhorne on Saturday and to LPC on Sunday. See you Sunday! Continue reading →

Like many of you and with the whole world, Becky and are fixed to the unfolding story of the attempts to rescue the twelve soccer players and their coach trapped in a cave beneath a mountain in Thailand.  We check our newsfeeds before going to bed and when we wake up, eager for the latest word, eager for the story of an amazing rescue.

“Brilliant!” said the diver from the UK who with his friend was first to find all thirteen alive after nine days lost.  Video captures the moment; who would not be touched by it? Continue reading →

LPC people know that our congregation is nearing the end of a long journey to a new denominational home. As long as the journey has been, we’re not even moving out of the neighborhood; in fact, the new place is just down the street.

By early fall we hope to be moved into the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the EPC – and evangelical in the best and historical sense of pertaining to the Good News of the Gospel. This past week Becky and I were in Memphis, Tennessee, visiting our daughter, son-in-law and 5-month old grandson. The General Assembly of the EPC just happened to be meeting three miles away. Continue reading →

You may have seen the story this week.  One typical headline read, “Millennials Expect to be Millionaires Who Retire in Their 50s, Survey Shows.”  The less kind stories about the report described the famous 18-37 year old generation as “delusional.”

The sense of the stories and of the survey questions as best we can tell is that the Millennials questioned are thinking millionaire as in “really rich,” not as is “my balance sheet including house, retirement accounts, paid-up life insurance, and the like.”  And they were thinking of a retirement, the guys at age 53, of the “I don’t need to add to the common good” sort – going back to spending all the day long at the video game console.

The poor Millennials. Picking on Millennials has become a bit of a cottage industry. Especially among Baby Boomers, who until recently held the record for most indulged and self-serving generation. Continue reading →

My older brother John lives in Antigua Guatemala, and has for over two years. He’s gotten used to the huffing and puffing of Volcán de Fuego ten miles away.  In fact, the not infrequent plumes of ash and steam, the occasional red glow at the top of the mountain visible from rooftops at night, are part of what makes life in Antigua so nice.

Members of our Guatemala mission teams play tourist in Antigua for 20 hours or so at the end of our week of service. Antigua is a nice place.

This past Sunday’s eruption of Fuego was the most violent in over forty years. It was not a show to thrill the tourists. It was deadly and destructive; hundreds of lives have been lost and entire villages destroyed. While the lava and pyroclastic flows were on the west side of the volcano, away from Antigua, the town was on edge and all Guatemala with it. Continue reading →