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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
Today we had a guest preacher speak. It's been decided by the church board to add another pastor and so we are evaluating candidates (so far only one).
He started out with a real doozy. Genesis chapter 6. For those who aren't familiar with Genesis, Chapters 6, 7 and 8 are the big Noah's...
Yesterday I found out a friend that I hadn't seen in a while passed away a little over a month ago. Apparently nobody knew how to get ahold of me and I don't get the paper so I didn't know. She'd been in a nursing home for a while and I'd been meaning to get up to visit her but something always...
We've started discussing the sermon at the Sunday night Bible group and it's a good thing that the leaders come prepared with a set of questions drawn up by the pastor's wife because with a brain like mine there is no telling what kind of mischief can happen if you allow people to come up with...
Today Pastor finally got around to preaching on Chapter 3 of Esther in which Haman plots genocide against the Jews because Mordecai wouldn't bow down to him. And yes, he did bring up, in passing, the incident where King Saul was ordered by the prophet Samuel (presumably speaking for God) to...
Once again the topic of today's sermon was prayer. (Apparently we are taking a break from Esther.) Pastor sat on the sidelines while one of the elders preached.
He started out by talking about most people's experience with prayer and healing and miracles and stuff, acknowledging that for...
Since I have now officially become old enough to hang around with the local senior citizens' group, I've started going to some of their functions. The other night I went to a dinner dance that they sponsored in memory of the Titanic 100th anniversary. We were all given the name of a passenger...
Another well-intentioned attempt to "heal" my wounded soul and raise my self-esteem, this time in the form of a book called "Captivating, Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul" by John and Staci Eldridge. It's not quite as nauseating as the other book I was given, but it is so full of...
Recently the pastor's wife gave me a booklet to read by a single Christian woman about my age and wanted my opinion on it as a single person. She said since she was married she couldn't tell if it was relevant or not.
Well, I read it. And O Dear God, what can I tell her? How can I tell her...
Well, I finally got to tell my story in Small Group Bible Study. I told it all, about my sadistic third grade teacher, the teasing and taunts, the meltdowns, being put in Special Education and drugged until I almost wound up in the State hospital, being sexually molested on my first date...
This Sunday promises to be an interesting sermon. We are now wading into some pretty troublesome waters with the Book of Esther. Yes, I know it is Palm Sunday but this church doesn't go for celebrating holidays much for some reason. It sure is a strange way to do church, that's for sure...
This week I learned that a colleague had been fired. I hadn't seen him in a while because after the "reorganization" we were split up into different departments and he was in another part of the building. One of his friends told me at breakfast.
I was shocked. "Stu" had been with the...
This Sunday's sermon was not an easy one for Pastor to preach on because it concerned the infamous beauty contest in Esther 2 or as he called it, "The Bachelor, Persian Style." If you recall, King Ahaserus of Persia had just given his wife Queen Vashti the boot because she refused to come...
Yesterday I wrote about the movie "Sunset Limited." Today I'd like to write about another movie that deals with life and death but from a different perspective. In "The Green Mile" John Coffey is facing execution for a crime he did not commit. He is resigned to the fact that he is going to...
Last night I watched the movie "Sunset Limited" with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. It's the kind of drama that I wish our community theater would put on. I'd love to be in it even though it was written for guys. Except I don't know which part I'd want to be--Black or White. Well, I...
Well, somehow I don't think Esther is going to be one of the all-time favorite Bible stories in this church. The first chapter, about the drinking party and the deposition of Vashti, didn't go over well with some of the women. They sure aren't going to like chapter two!
Since we finished up...
A very interesting and disturbing sermon today on the Book of Esther. He started out by saying that Esther is considered controversial because it never mentions God, faith, prayer, religion. God is absent, working behind the scenes, and in that respect Esther is more like life as we experience...
Last week, since we have finished the Book of Acts, Pastor took a break and preached from one of the Psalms. Psalm 127 which is about work and family. Now I don't know if it was just coincidence (it was Children's Dedication Sunday) or whether the recent Rush Limbaugh controversy had anything...
Tornado season is definitely off and running. Monday night they blew the sirens because radar indicated rotation in a storm cell several miles west of my town. No tornado touched down, although the sky turned bluish black to the northwest. I suppose they felt better safe than sorry but I was...
Now begins the season of fear. From now until fall, whenever it storms, I will not be able to take an easy breath, especially at night. No matter how rational I am at other times, this is the time when I revert to a primitive, superstitious way of thinking. I cannot help myself.
During the...
Recently the body of a homeless man was found in the bushes outside a church in a nearby city. It was determined that he had frozen to death. Of course it upset the pastor and the other church staff, who felt guilty about not seeing the man's need, like the story of the rich man and Lazarus in...