Sitting by the Lake
There is something restorative about the water. My soul feels most at ease when I am around water.
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Tag Spirituality
Developing Spiritual Resilience
Without maintaining our spirituality and keeping it healthy, we risk compromising our performance and well-being.
Spiritual Self-Care During an Outbreak
We can use our time wisely and invite God in to bring healing to ourselves, our families, our neighbors and the world.
6 Steps to Spiritual Awakening in the New Year
On the blog, Sivana Spirit, author Kim Chestney writes about making changes in your spiritual life for the New Year. Chestney lists 6 steps to waking up your inner self and start off on the right path.
5 Questions to help you manage your stress
Our bodies are designed to handle small amounts of stress. Still, our bodies are not equipped to handle long-term or chronic stress without consequences that can affect us emotionally, spiritually, physically, and cognitively.
Jesus Wept
In the 11th chapter of the Gospel of John, we read the story of Jesus raising his friend Lazarus from the dead. We do not know much about Lazarus other than he lived in a town called Bethany and he…
Sermon: A Call to the Grateful Way
This is the final installment of a series on developing an ethic of gratitude. As with the others in this series, this sermon is based on the book Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass. Unless otherwise…
Sermon: The Grateful Society
This sermon is part of a series based on the book Grateful, The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass. In my “From the Pastor” column in the weekly church newsletter, I share a little about how as…
Reflection: Communal Worship
“…be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of…
Why I left the Church of Rome
This has not been the easiest piece I have ever written, I have struggled over this piece for several years writing and re-writing it, but now I feel it is time. I have delayed publishing this for a variety of…