Sep 24, 2020 | Stories, Student Stories
When I was a first year seminarian in the fall of 1978, Professor Scaer was preaching in chapel on the text of Matthew 13:44 and following. He preached so directly on how God’s love and the justification of the sinner are so connected that even a sinner such as...
Sep 24, 2020 | Stories, Stories of God's People
No, I wasn’t literally dead, but people sure treated me like I was. In 2008, the life that I had planned lay in ruins. The marriage that I had fought tooth and nail for over a decade lay smoldering at my feet, destroyed by jealousies, insecurities, and a guy who I...
Sep 24, 2020 | Pastor's Stories, Stories
“”My final service after 27 years at my congregation in Waterville, Maine was on August 30, 2020. I received this poem from a 14-year-old girl I had confirmed in June. ‘Allison’s Farewell Poem Thank you for the sermons I can’t rememberThank you for...