Category Archives: on Earth as it is in Heaven
A 270-year-old church with one member
In the woods 18 miles north of Columbia, SC, sits an aging church, reported to have a congregation of but a single individual. Thieves have stolen the copper tubing from its air conditioning unit, making services throughout a good part of the year quite uncomfortable.
Yet, Cedar Creek Methodist Church, metaphorically speaking, soldiers on.
The church dates back to 1743, when it began as a German Reformed branch of Presbyterianism called the German Protestant Church of Appii Forum, and was one of 15 German churches in interior South Carolina.
The congregation met in a 16-foot-by-20-foot structure constructed of logs with a dirt floor.
The congregation is said to have been converted to Methodism in a single day by famed Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury shortly after the end of the American Revolution.
Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the US. A native of England…
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An Author Who Has Changed My Life, Frederick Buechner, Has Died (1926-2022)

On Saturday, just as I was waiting to go onto a church platform to officiate a wedding, I heard that Frederick Buechner had passed away. At 96 years …
An Author Who Has Changed My Life, Frederick Buechner, Has Died (1926-2022)
Poetry Friday 08-12-2022

A poem posted at my other blog Step Ahead is inspired by the post “Preparing For Action” about the documented record of Jesus entering Jerusalem for …
Poetry Friday 08-12-2022
Choosing The Better Part – A Sermon On Luke 10:38-42

“Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things.” Given everything that has happened the last couple of months in Uvalde, our nation,…
Choosing The Better Part – A Sermon On Luke 10:38-42
The Heart of David

One night a lady came home from her weekly prayer meeting, found she was being robbed, and she shouted out, “Acts 2:38: ‘Repent and be baptized and …
The Heart of David
Mary: The Blessing of All Generations by Fr. Freeman

In my childhood, it was not unusual to hear someone ask, “Who are your people?” It was a semi-polite, Southernism designed to elicit essential …
Mary: The Blessing of All Generations