Good morning! May your day be restful. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

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The #OldGal dropped her streak again. 🫣

Valentine’s Day at a ball field. Life doesn’t get much better!

21Β°, sunny and no wind.

Good morning! May you know that mercy is made new every day. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

A person holds a coffee mug in a cozy living room with patterned chairs and a lit fireplace.

Once again, Bonhoeffer challenges us in a timely way.

Entirely too many of my colleagues are not submitting themselves to the way of the cross but to their own passions.

Oh that I (we) would learn this lesson well.

One way to love well is to develop healthy boundaries that free you to bond with others as equals, knowing that inherent in all people is both good and bad.

The most subversive things we can do in these times is love without condition, correct error with truth in grace, and acknowledge our own blind spots with humility.

Fermenting hate, denigrating the humanity of other people, and withholding mercy makes one the very thing they are opposed to.

We can do better.

I know we can.

I have seen it.

I can do better.

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The #OldGal posted a 4 today as well. Any 3s out there?

Good morning! May you choose to be kind today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

Sometimes when you’re working on sermon you get a bit overwhelmed by the text. I am going to teach Micah over the next three weeks and woof. It’s punching me in the gut.

This Sunday at Peace Presbyterian Church in Flint at 10:45 am and at The Acts 13 Network in Ypsilanti at 530 pm we will begin a three week exploration of the prophet, Micah. His message of doom and hope is timely for us today.

If you’ve been looking for a faith community in Ypsilanti or Flint, I hope you will join us.

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I am staring at my to do list and I have no interest in it whatsoever. I am just going to start at the top.

Here…

We…

Go…

Good morning! May your to-do list shrink today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

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The #OldGal also scored a 4 today. Any #YoungPups with a birdie?