by cbaker | Oct 26, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
Some of you may have seen or shared a post that was on Facebook over the weekend. I am not sure who originally wrote the words, but I saw Bishop David Epps’s name attached. I will offer the words here: “As church attendance numbers fade across the nation on...
by cbaker | Oct 19, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
I am so pleased that the Calvary Weekday School is up and running once again! It is wonderful to hear and see the children lining up in the parking lot, running and playing on the playground and learning and making friends in the classrooms. All last school year, the...
by cbaker | Oct 12, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
Mention the word “stewardship” to the average person, and the first thing that comes to mind is money. Somehow, most Christians equate “stewardship” with money or with giving to the church. But its more than that. Certainly, money is an important part of what...
by cbaker | Oct 5, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
This week, as I am digging deeper into the Book of Job, I am learning more about lament. That is one way to respond to difficulties and troubles that come our way. All of us are used to grumbling, to complaining, to protest. We grumble about the traffic, we...
by cbaker | Oct 1, 2021 | Newsletters
October 2021
by cbaker | Sep 29, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
We are hoping to begin to provide one worship service experience that will be available both in the sanctuary in person as well as online through YouTube and Facebook. Since March of 2020, Pastor Shannon and I produced, recorded, and uploaded over 67 worship services...
by cbaker | Sep 21, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
While clearing out some space in my garage a while back, I came across a box of books that included a title I read back in seminary, Moral Man and Immoral Society, by Reinhold Niebuhr. Although this book was written ninety years ago, it seems to speak of something...
by cbaker | Sep 14, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
One of the most delightful things to watch on television lately has been Ted Lasso. It’s a show on Apple Plus TV so it does require a subscription to watch (ugh), but it is a delightful, positive and enjoyable show about an American Football coach that ends up...
by cbaker | Sep 1, 2021 | Newsletters
September Newsletter 2021
by cbaker | Aug 31, 2021 | Pastor's Pondering
Diana Butler Bass she writes a daily blog called “The Cottage”. On July 8, she wrote about and about some remarkable findings that came out of a study completed by Public Religion Research Institute called The American Religious Landscape in 2020. The study shows that...
