After a solid day of church staff retreat/meeting with Terry Walling (which was phenomenal, btw, and will be blogged later this week) I scootered home, grabbed some of the random (mine, but random) kids hanging around the house, and made a beeline for the ponds at Harvest Fields. We spent Read more…
While this is less than ideal, it’s time to start getting the word out: I accepted a position as a pastor of a small church in Salem, MA. It’s an old-school, Puritan church, and although this will be a difficult transition for me and my family, we are genuinely excited Read more…
margin…no, not the edges of your page that you subtly increase in order to magically lengthen the content of your Literature essay. But similar. I’m talking about the edges of your life, the white spaces, the unused, latent portions of your schedule. Much like the margins in your math notebook, Read more…
I don’t know what the Monday after Thanksgiving is like where you live, but in PA, it’s a holiday. Schools are closed. Families gather, fathers passing down the wisdom of the ages to their children. It’s been a family tradition for as long as we can remember. Up at 4am, Read more…
What do you call it when lots of similar things line up? You know, when one after another, people present you with the same kind of thought or idea, or opportunity after opportunity seem to roll across your desk/screen/phone? I’m not talking weak sauce, like you heard an ad for Read more…
Highlight: having brunch with some of the guys who attended chapel this year with the State College Spikes. Being a chaplain for a minor league baseball team is a lot like being in youth/college ministry. This summer’s chapel schedule was very sporadic, which made it hard to get much traction. Read more…
If you do it two years in a row, does that make it a family tradition? We might be onto something here in Happy Valley. Team Sublett descended once again upon Harvest Fields (where Calvary has our offices) today to mark Memorial Day. We splashed in the pond to beat Read more…
One of the Team Sublett traditions…gathered around the supper table, each one of us shares a highlight and lowlight (lowlights first, please) from the day. It gives us a chance to hear about each other, to learn some lessons, to reinforce good decisions, to head off any on-coming disasters, and Read more…