This Sunday, August 17th, I preached a message that was completely different than the notes I had originally composed!  This is what I preached instead (the Knox version)...

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Today would have been my father's 68th birthday.  Well, it still is, technically;  he just hasn't been here to celebrate the last 18 with us ( Read more... )

I have two funerals in the next week.  One is for a woman who had been quite ill for some time.  The other was utterly unexpected.

There are a few videos on YouTube of people who have died suddenly, via heart attack or stroke, and while it may seem morbid that I have watched them, there is that moment of, "Now they are here, and now they are notAt ( Read more... )

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I'm on vacation.  That is to say, I am not having office hours, not writing sermons, not visiting the sick, not... well, you get the idea.  Most years, a vacation requires vacating (hence the word) but we are having a renovation done to our basement this year, and so the funds for vacating are simply not available.

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I know I haven't posted on here for a while.  Things have come up, and maybe the malaise I've been feeling lately has been a buildup of pus and crap in my system.  Ancient doctors would have said that 'my humours aren't right' and would have bled me with leeches to try to get me back to the top of my game.

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