On a recent Sunday morning, I delivered the children’s message at our 9:00 a.m. worship service. My topic was the Apostle Paul and right away, a child who was present asked one of those questions (as children often do) that is both seemingly simple and yet deceptively challenging all at the same time. The question was this. “Wasn’t Paul a Roman?”

This is the second spring/summer that I'm attempting to have a vegetable garden. I don't have any land to plant on so I'm resolved to having my garden in pots on the back porch.  Last year I planted lots of different things, just to give it a try. I learned A LOT.  Here are some of the highlights from last year's experience:

-Some plants need deep roots to grow and thus will not do well in potted gardens. That's probably why the cucumbers didn't make it.

There had been a point about a year and a half ago when I thought to myself, and said within some of our leadership circles at WPC, that the last thing I ever wanted to do, or believed I would be overseeing upon my arrival, was to help bring certain aspects of existing church programming to an end.  Throughout my ministry career I was the "creation-of-new-program-and-transformation-of-old-program" guy wherever I served.   Suddenly I was engaged in what seemed to be the exact opposite process, and not because that was my desire.   I

Tonight, for our Maundy Thursday service, we'll be re-enacting the Passover celebration.  This is likely the way Jesus spent that Last Supper night with his disciples.  The Passover feast is saturated with symbolism and every part has its own purpose.  During one portion of the celebration, the youngest child present is to ask the Four Questions to the adults at the table, probing into the history of the Jewish people and deepening the faith of all present.  Even though most might already know the answers to the questions, its done out of remembrance and faithfulness to