Letters On The Page

2023 Day of Pentecost – Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-11; John 14:23-31a In the name of the Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.  When Adam and Eve were removed from the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience, God told Adam that his days of easy living were over.  Making a life was going to be a struggle.  cursed is the ground because of you;   in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;   18  thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;   and you shall eat the plants of the field.   19  By the sweat of your face   you shall eat bread,   till you return to the ground…  (Genesis 3:17b-19a)    Work and life will be hard. As we continue through the first 11 chapters of Genesis, we see that man’s disobedience continues from one generation to another. We do not learn.  We do not fundamentally change. God even destroys the inhabitants of the earth through the flood. Yet, Noah’s descendants persist in selfish, foolish, idolatrous choices. The lessons of the immediate past ar

The year 2015 found me busy as a congregational pastor and working on a Master of Library Science degree. At this point, the Master of Library Science degree at IUPUI was gearing its students to become familiar with social media.  We regularly had to create websites or blogs or do something online for our various assignments.  I just came across one of my blogs from 2015.  The instructor for this particular class had us create a blog page, then she provided us with a weekly prompt or question for us to respond to.  Here is the prompt I just read and my response.  Enjoy. Saturday, April 25, 2015 Week 16 Prompt First, how have reading and books changed since you were a child, for you specifically? I was born in 1966. We were fortunate to have a Carnegie library downtown.  My dad and mom both took turns taking us down to the library. During the summer months we were blessed with the book mobile.  It parked itself only two houses down from where we lived. Wow! What a treat to walk into a v