Satisfaction Tom Euston A week ago today, Marie and I came home from our first camping trip in about two years. Despite some problems with the camper and our truck, we had a great time. My sister in law was also camping in the same campground with her children. Her husband and I worked all week, and while I commuted from the campground, it wasn’t practical for him to. On the Saturday before we left, my niece and nephew asked if I would take them fishing. The campground has a small pond where fishing is permitted. So Marie, her sister, her brother who was visiting, my niece and nephew, and I walked to the pond to fish. My niece and nephew were actually the only two who were fishing. There is
Decisions, Decisions Tom Euston This mornings Gospel reading is a flashback. It is a continuation of last weeks reading from Mark which ended like this: He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. He said to them, ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ So they went out and proclaimed that all should
Journey of Faith Tom Euston Last Sunday afternoon, I read the Scriptures for today and planned roughly what message today’s sermon would bring. But, as is sometimes the case, my plans fall through, and this is one of those times. Monday seemed to be a pretty typical day, at least in the morning. But, the afternoon was anything but typical. I came back from lunch, and one of my co-workers pulled me aside and asked if I had heard about one of our previous coworkers. I knew he had recently found a new job he was enjoying and was expecting a larger role in the company, so when she asked me if I had heard about him, I thought he must have received the promotion he was expecting. That was not the
