Holy Week. Greetings from Seattle

Greetings from Seattle, where the two constants in life are coffee and rain. This week I have had lots of both! I am fortunate enough to serve a church that desires to promote growth, both spiritually and professionally, with in the lives of their clergy. So this week I post to you not only from Seattle, but also the 48^th Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society as well and the 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. Obviously I would consider myself a Wesleyan Scholar and a Scholar of Wesleyanism, but I am also a scholar of Pentecostalism, but not a Pentecostal scholar. I am enjoying myself at this “feast of theological thinking”, but as was the case while in seminary, I find little of it useful in my day-to-day service as a pastor. Well... enough of that!

This coming week is Holy week, and though I will not be at my charge for Palm Sunday, I will be present and presiding for the other Holy Week services as well and Resurrection Sunday. The first stop after Palm Sunday that most of us Neo-Liturgical Protestants make is Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday. This is where we begin. I ask that over the next several days you seriously enter into a time of reflection of the cost of your salvation and how we can present this gift to a hurting and suffering world. Have a blessed Holy Week.