Children's Time has been a regular feature of sermons at Avondale with Rev. Ponder Williams. The standard format was usually the reading of a book to the children. Ponder Williams didn't vary that motif on his final Sunday. What he did do was to use it as a means of transition, encouraging the children to … Continue reading Today is Your Day: Children’s Time
Today is Your Day: Service Music
Today's post is sound bites from the service music. Though it was the Rev Gary Ponder Williams' last sunday at Avondale United Methodist Church, that did not change the order of service. If anything, it made that liturgical rhythm even more important. First, a Prelude from the church's pipe organ. Next, the Introit: O Come Let … Continue reading Today is Your Day: Service Music
Today is Your Day
That was one of the themes at services Sunday at Avondale United Methodist Church. The day marked the final Sunday where the Rev. Gary Ponder Williams served as pastor of AUMC. Both the services and the reception afterwards were poignant memories of his time at Avondale, and best wishes as he heads to his next … Continue reading Today is Your Day
Being Thankful: Meditations on Christine and Bernie
Today's post includes meanderings that go back to 2007. It is sparked by something that happened this past Saturday. That was the year we were church hunting. After years at the mega-church, it was time for something more community oriented and smaller. We explored several churches, and found ourselves drawn to two different churches -- … Continue reading Being Thankful: Meditations on Christine and Bernie
Campus Tour
Today's travelogue is going to be the campus tour. You are shown around a whole bunch of building that look impressive, you remember a lot of things about them, not always what you were actually told, and you forget even more than you remember.
Gonzaga — Bicycle Haven
Part Three of my Travelogue to Gonzaga University is on bicycles. Spokane and Gonzaga both seem to be part of a very bicycle friendly zone. The riverfront part has trails with zones marked "wheels only", places where bicycles go, and places for pedestrians. If you look on the Gonzaga campus, there are bicycle racks everywhere. … Continue reading Gonzaga — Bicycle Haven
Gonzaga in Signs
Today's episode of my Spokane/Gonzaga travelogue is about signs. I noticed a lot of signs around the Gonzaga campus, enough to make a video montage from the footage I shot. The wall you see scanned, that looks like it has graffiti over it, has an interesting history. Apparently it was originally put up to keep … Continue reading Gonzaga in Signs
Spokane Ho!
Last week I filled the blog with an entire week's posts in my Great Hymns of the Faith series. I did this because I was spending the week in Spokane, WA, at Gonzaga University taking the "campus immersion" class that is part of my online master's degree through Gonzaga. This week I am going to … Continue reading Spokane Ho!
The Acts (acting) of the Apostles
This past Sunday was the weekend of Annual Conference for the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church. That being the case, our pastor was at the conference, and the mid-high sunday school class, under the direction of their teacher's of course, led the worship service and shared the message. They shared the message by … Continue reading The Acts (acting) of the Apostles
Veritasium and Smarter Every Day
Okay, this is another of those link to something else posts, "saving" me time while I work on other edits. That said, this is a very interesting link. These two websites on science and knowledge conducted the same experiment in two hemispheres to see if the corialis effect was true. I've been a subscriber to … Continue reading Veritasium and Smarter Every Day
