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You should know, gentle reader, that there are days when I–even I–question the reality of daily statements.  “No Parking”?  Who says so?   “65% less cholesterol”?  Who says so?  “End of the world tomorrow”?  Who says so?  Scripture lessons to be heard this weekend are evidently aimed at me and my cynic friends who harbor these nagging fears that there’s really no one in charge, that the chaos-monster is nipping at our heels and there’s no safe haven…

Deuteronomy 18:15-20 remembers how Moses led Yahweh’s People through the wilderness until they’d formed a social & religious community.  But Moses is aging, and there’ll have to be a new leader to present the Law and to call the people from where they may scatter.  He assures them, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people….I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command”.   In effect, don’t follow just ANYone, but realize that we can trust God’s providence alone.

The diverse backgrounds of the Corinthian Christians spawned many superstitions, a lot of them counter to Christian doctrine.  Paul scoffs at them, “Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge”  (I 8:2).  Then comes a small dissertation on the invalidity of idols, and the futility of debating the worthiness of eating what has been sacrificed to them.  BUT, although we “know” this, we need to be respectful of the scruples of other believers, whose personal journey may be derailed by observing our freedom.

Don’t get lost in this Gospel reading (Mark 1:21-28) in debating about demons and unclean spirits:  this is how Mark describes the ugly spots in the world’s collective conscience which run over and against Jesus.  The key for us today is to observe that by general teaching and personal conversation Jesus presented Wholeness as an antidote to the life-scarred cynicism of the world around him.  Witnesses took the opportunity to ascribe Divine Authority to Jesus:  “He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”

In this Information Age, I get ‘way too many factoids and half-baked sound bytes, most of which contradict each other.  I’m a bit weary of this extensive menu of expertise, and I cry loudly, “Who says so?”  I yearn for someone I trust to tell me, “This is for real!”  This weekend, I intend to sit deep and let reliable Divinity immerse me in that which I must believe, that God is able to be Sole Authority for me.  Thanks be to God!

PS–my mother’s birth-name was Helen Fry.  During her school years, she was often invoked to verify facts: “If you don’t believe me, go to Helen Fry!”

God Help Us, Every One                        Horace Brown King

My ruminations on Scripture for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

A procrastinator by habit, I like to take my time with life-changes.  If I wait long enough, maybe the problem will have gone away by itself.  Or perhaps someone else will step in to do what’s needed.  If there’s anyone like me in the pews where you worship, this weekend’s readings may speak volumes to all of us in the “man~ana” club.  Evidently when God calls us to do something important, we’re expected to respond!  What a novel (and scary) idea!

The challenge to the preacher/teacher/worship coordinator in presenting the short- story of Jonah is in addressing the whole context.  I mean that the entire epic begins with a Holy Call to a proper Jewish man to evangelize the pagan and unclean city of Ninevah.  Jonah saw no reason to do that, so he ran the other direction,  taking his chances with the sea-monsters of the unknown rather than the vices of Sin City.  You know about the tempest, about being thrown overboard,  and the sacramental entrance of the Big Fish.  Dried out, Jonah was told, “Okay, let’s try it again”.  Which is where our snippet of the tale begins (Chapter 3).  Jonah belatedly mumbles through his mission–and wonder of wonders, all the citizenry of Ninevah turn to God!  See what happens, Jonah, when you quit screwing around and get to it…

The brief Epistle lesson (I Corinthians 7:29-31) is given by an enthusiastic Paul who over-reacts to “the present form of this world is passing away”.   Yes, so it is, through the birth of Christ–but his advice to abandon marriage, griefs & joys, and commerce and daily life are premature.  What we can extract, though, is the proclamation of the immanence of God’s Kingdom.  Compare this to the bumper-sticker which reads “Jesus is Coming:  Everyone Look Busy!”

Mark’s Gospel, 1:14-20, is a scene-shifter from last week’s account by John of the calling of the first disciples.  Here we see Jesus visiting some fisher-folk, Simon & Andrew, James & John, who “immediately” made the life-change of abandoning father & business to follow Jesus.  Mark’s Gospel is full of “immediately”‘s–he’s trying to convey the momentary urgency of taking the window while it’s open.  He means “right this minute”, “without delay”.  Unlike the anti-hero Jonah (and me), The Rock & Andy and the Sons of Thunder recognized that There’s No Time Like the Present.

There’re quite a few fish mentioned today, encouraging our graphics people to display some simple “Icthus”-type logos.  Was it Emerson who remarked that “after three days, visitors and fish begin to [smell bad]”?  Jesus promised his detractors that the only “sign” to which they were entitled was the “sign of Jonah”.  The day has symbols in abundance!  And at the close of my hospital visits, I usually pause at the door of the room and tell the patient, “Remember what the fish said about Jonah:  it’s hard to keep a good man down!”

God Bless Us, Every One                 Horace Brown King

My musings on scripture readings assigned to the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

The Season of Epiphany is that when human-folk begin to know the New Baby more thoroughly.  Having journeyed to the manger, the spiritually wise find newness in their return…and now begin to open their senses to recognize a Holy Presence in all that is around them.  This weekend’s lessons address the persistent voice–perhaps unknown ’til now–that begins to reveal God as being involved in the wholeness of culture, justice and society.

We begin with the familiar story of the boy Samuel (3:1-20), who is awakened from sleep three times by someone calling his name.  Thinking it was his priest-mentor, old Eli, he presented himself for some late-night request.  “Not I,” said Eli, “go back to bed.”  Finally after three such occasions, Eli caught on:  “This is the Lord; listen carefully, and tell me everything.”  As you know, the message was one of complaint against Eli’s family…but the core of the reading for contemporary saints is the ultimate recognition of a Holy Voice.

Now, what to do with the passage aimed at the Corinthian Church (I 6:12-20)?  Whether the bulk of this is from the hand of Paul or from a later redactor, it appears that a major concern of the congregation was lots of casual sex.  Some have defined “fornication” as having sex without an emotional or loving involvement with one’s partner.  Too many generations have shunned the God-gift of sexuality, when the problem has mainly been selfish fulfillment alone!

John’s Gospel account (1:43-51) tells of Jesus’ call to Philip and Nathanael.  “Come and see”, said Jesus.  “Come and see”, said Philip to skeptic Nathanael.  Come and experience, come and get involved, paint your wagon and come along…!  This time the Holy Summons wasn’t subtle, and both Philip and Nathanael quickly responded, the latter naming Jesus “Son of God, King of Israel”.  When Jesus told Nathanael that he saw him “under the fig tree”,  it meant that Nathanael was ready for this challenge.  God had evidently been marinating these guys in the Holy Spirit, and now they were seasoned to go.

Each of us has their own recollection of where & when they first heard God; and all of them are valid.  I was fortunate to have been in and around the church as early as I can remember, so I was well-steeped in soul-questions.  I admitted to Christ as Lord and Guide somewhere around age 11; but again, this was a subtle process.  I wasn’t quick to acknowledge my ministerial vocation, finally giving in during my first semester of working on a Master of Music degree.  Even after, the trip hasn’t always been bagels ‘n’ lox:  many Clouds of Unknowing and self-doubts attest to my humanity.  However you may have heard a Holy Voice, be glad for that sacramental in-breaking–may you know that the Lord is with you!

God Bless Us, Every One               Horace Brown King

My wrestling with the scripture assigned to the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

Those following this weekend’s lectionary have several choices to follow:  it could be the Second Week after Christmas, or it could be The Baptism of the Lord.  Or it could be the Epiphany–which I’ve chosen, because this should be observed as cloture (?) to Christmas.  Shrouded in delicious legends, the showing of Christ to the Gentiles/ whole world has been prodded and tweaked by ages and cultures.  Dr. Becky Harrison loaned me an article by Michael Molnar which proposes that the Star of Bethlehem was the planet Jupiter (King of the Solar System?) arising and proceeding into the House of Aries, Aries being the zodiacal sign which governed the Near East and especially Israel… (THE ANCIENT WORLD, Vol.29, #2; 1998)  Interesting enough; yet I tend in my old age to prefer the mystery over the explainable.

Third Isaiah, in the tradition of magi, tells readers to “arise, shine; for your light has come,  and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you” (60:1).  Despite the thick darkness which we all know too well, a welcome shower of hope soaks into our parched land.  The Presence of the Holy comes both as a slow dawning or a flash of power.  Each of us describes our own Epiphany differently.  Yet we do see and become radiant, our hearts do thrill and rejoice:  lift up your eyes and look at the gift-givers who proclaim the praise of the Lord!
The Pauline author of Ephesians speaks of revealing “the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things” (3:10).  An interconnection within all readings affirms that the sons & daughters of Israel will bring costly gifts; the Gentile magi of the Gospel bring costly gifts; and the Ephesians are now reminded that Christ–the costliest gift of all–has been brought by God to Israel  and Gentile alike!  The epiphany here is that both have been included since the beginning; the Church (the Body of Christ) is instructed to pass along God’s wisdom to all rulers and authorities.

Most of us have heard the story of the Three Kings since we were tiny.  Art, written literature, music have all robed these visitors with personality; we’ve named them Melchior, Caspar & Balthazar (sounds like a law firm) and assigned them camels, licorice and magic powers.  They studied not only the stars but also sacred traditions and expectations: they were ready and willing to recognize a Sign of Divinity, a holy moment.  “The star is pure grace; their travel is sheer faith; their worship is the dawn of a new age whose fullness will see all peoples come to the mountain of God.”  (Thomas R. Steagald, in FEASTING on the WORD, B 1:211)

Steagald sums up the readings:  “The primacy of Christ in God’s gracious initiative and the consequent unity of all God’s children–and all people, now, beneficiaries of Christ’s unsearchable riches–are the heart of this day’s proclamation….Epiphany unveils, proclaims, celebrates God’s gift to all people.” (ibid.,p.207)

God Bless Us, Every One                 Horace Brown King

My musings on scripture readings for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

On this Second Day of Christmas, alas, instead of two turtle-doves many of my neighbors are undecorating:  “Christmas is over.  We’ve been doing Rudolph since Halloween, and we’re sick of tinsel!”  The Church is a bunch of odd folks–John Wesley called us “a peculiar people”, but that’s not what he meant–who see a Divine Promise fulfilled, who still wait for the Wise Men.  Scripture readings for this weekend embellish our thoughts about what to do with The Baby.

Isaiah 61:10 to 62:3 celebrates the re-born NATION, God’s Holy People.  The speaker rejoices that the “garments of salvation, the robe of righteousness” have been bestowed.  So clothed with renewal, the Believer announces the vindication of Israel, and her glory before all other kings.  As is befitting those touched by Yahweh, there will be a new name–Jacob/Israel, Saul/Paul–for that People who have seen the Lord.  “I will not keep silent,…I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch.”

Paul reminds the Galatian Christians of the Nativity:  “when the fullness of time had come…” (4:4-7)  This conjures up a watershed of holy relationships:  the Old is past (with all its deserving kudos), the New has come.  The author writes in perspective of having come through the anxieties of Crucifixion, Resurrection and the physical destruction of the stage-work of the Old Covenant.  Jesus’ birth needs to be recalled in order to shape the faith and discipleship of these second-generation followers.  Until the fullness of time is completely realized,  they and we stand with a foot in each Testament.

Simeon & Anna were not the Nice Couple from Baltimore, but they were faithful adherents to the idea that the Messiah was knocking at the door of the Temple (Luke 2:22-40).  What congregation doesn’t have them?  The usually-older folk who hang around the office and supervise the pew-polishing ?  Underfoot, to be sure–yet these are searching & waiting for tidbits of Grace, reassuring signs that life goes on under some sort of Divine Guidance.  Anna spoke about the ChristChild “to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem”.  And old Simeon didn’t see death, but did see Yahweh’s salvation, “A light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel”.  He “looked forward to the consolation of Israel” and lived until he had heard its borning cry.

When I actively pastored, I greatly enjoyed the week between Christmas and New Year’s.  None of us wanted to meet about lightbulbs or liturgy, and this was one of the few periods for the parsonage family to travel guilt-free.  But I also knew that a new agenda was waiting in the wings: the rich seasons of Epiphany and Lent were treading on our tails.  Until the next theophany, then…

God Bless Us, Every One                               Horace Brown King

My musings on Scripture passages assigned to the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook or at horacebrownking.com

We have both Christmas Eve AND the Fourth Sunday of Advent to occupy our weekend; I’ve chosen to think here about the readings for the Fourth Sunday.  A word from the Old Guy: preachers & worship planners needn’t look high & low for something “new” for Christmas Eve–people are attending this service to hear the traditional story once again, a stable comfort in changing times.  But first we need to finish Advent…

King David felt guilty because his palace was finished and well-furnished, while Yahweh’s Ark of the Covenant had to rest in a tent (II Samuel 7:1-11, 16).  As he developed plans, Yahweh spoke:  “Are you the one to build me a house to live in?….the Lord will make YOU a house!….Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever…”  This is certainly an unexpected twist to normal procedures.  The passage also sets up the connections by which Jesus is called the Son of  [the  House of] David.

Before we get too harsh with Vicki of Nashville for including the postscript to the Letter to the Romans (16:25-27) in the lectionary, the preacher could explore these verses as an expression of praise for the Gift of Anticipation.  Those preparing to peer into the manger have been richly blessed by the journey.  How shall we respond to the astonishing news that God is about to break into the cares, fears and causes of those about whom we care?   Those hearing the Incarnation Story realize that this breaks boundaries and overturns the whole world!  This is an unusual manner of business.

The Gospel (Luke 1: 26ff) is about the strange case of Mary of Nazareth, a single woman, who has just been informed by the angel that she is to bear the ChristChild, truly an unusual manner of business!  “How can this be?” she asked.  And the angel responded, “For nothing will be impossible with God.”  Our whole encounter with Christmas–or it with us–yields wonder that the normal scheme of things is turned upside-down by this holy inbreaking.  Don’t forget to include at least a passing reference to Mary’s Song/the Magnificat (beginning at verse 47) which describes the overturning of Business as Usual.

The Fourth Sunday of Advent is a marvelous Divine Pause in all the cultural trappings, a deep breath for all who wait.  May it remind you that a new order is unfolding.  This new order is a bit unusual, to be sure; but you’re invited to drink it deeply and to immerse all of your senses in its gracious pools.  May you have a Blessed Christmas!

God Bless Us, Every One                 Horace Brown King

My thoughts about the prescribed scripture readings for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

In the gloom of the year’s end, three candles in the dark!  The Church may have the only words of Joy that people will hear:  who will attend our worship that may be overwhelmed by grief of dreams unmet, by the cynicism of getting and guilt-gifts?  Scriptures for this weekend exhort the hearer to expect a specific Presence who will change the world-system into closer alignment with the original design of One who craves universal justice, peace and righteousness.

We begin with a powerful oracle found in the eclectic writing of Third Isaiah (61: 1-4, 8-11).  “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me…to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted…to proclaim liberty to the captives…to comfort all who mourn…”  Recalled by Jesus as his mission-statement, we can be likewise touched by a nurturing vision, this Advent as we wait, as we expect a heavenly inbreaking.   To a people who are living among ruins, these words are a reminder that God has not forgotten them.   The coming of a Stranger proclaims the year of the Lord’s favor.

To the Thessalonian Christians, Paul writes exhortations to a holy life, as they’ve been touched by the ChristChild  (I 5:16-24).  “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks….abstain from every form of evil”.  Central to all of these reactions is the admonition to “not quench the Spirit”.  Paul evidently expected  the Ultimate Advent to soon appear, looking for our entire sanctification at the hand of God.  “The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this.”  Who is this Stranger?

What more can we say about John the Baptizer, as met in John 1:6-8, 19-28?  He successfully evades those who try to put him in a box:  “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness…”  One phrase leaps out at me:  “AMONG YOU stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me…”  What?  AMONG US?  This is scandalous to think that God walks, eats & breathes with US!  They kept looking for this Stranger–and this Advent, so do we.

The days around me are filled with folks Doing Things, desperately trying to drag a nostalgic Christmas Spirit in with the Yule Log.  Outside of a few necessary family traditions, I’m trying to be in a more passive stance.  The ChristChild continues to break in when & where we least expect it, despite our frantic busyness.  Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, that I may recognize your face on my crowded street!

God Bless Us Everyone!                 Horace Brown King

My sermonic preparations can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

I’m sitting in my warm study in upstate New York, listening to Rachmaninoff.  Outside weather is bleak: rain taps on the window, clouds are dark; all but the hardiest birds have long gone to brighter climes, remaining leaves are brown & soggy.  The operative word for this Season is DARK.  Overrun with guilt for the sad state of the world, I’m having a hard time summoning Hope.  On Sunday we lit the First Candle of Advent, which brought some light to my gloom–but children in the Kid’s Time were more starry- eyed about Santa than the ChristChild.

In counterpoint we hear a Word in the Wilderness:  the Prophet cries  out, “Prepare in the desert a highway for our God!” (Isaiah 40:1-11)  Preposterous!  Can we really clear the decks of materialism and selfishness?  The latest tax-scam is no Christmas present for the needy!  “All people are grass…the grass withers, the flower fades…. BUT the word of our God will stand forever!”  So we have not only permission, but directive, to lift up our voice with strength, to shout in the Darkness, “Here is your God!”  Those who read this portion aloud in worship must declaim it with great drama–for it is.

The message of II Peter comes to those who’re anxiously waiting out civic harassment and persecution:  “…with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.  The Lord is not slow about his promise…” (3:8ff)  Evidently “waiting” is  a familiar stance among Believers, and in some ways marks them off from the rest of impatient humanity.  So Advent can be a yearly focus on waiting “for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.”  In the meantime, until the ChristChild is once more physically among us, we try to prepare the way by cleaning up our own act, “without spot or blemish”.

Mark begins his gospel account (1:1-8) with a segue from Isaiah’s bold announcement:  John the Baptizer fulfills this role as the Messenger, appearing in the wilderness (naturally) to light some Candles of Hope.  His message is simple: turn it around, get rid of your selfish baggage and pick up the free cookies God is providing in the perceived Messiah.  Bonhoeffer reminds us that “repentance means turning away from one’s own work to the mercy of God.”  (sermon on November 19, 1933)  Watching and waiting involves looking for and recognizing these Messengers who point out the New Things that the Creator is already about!

The book study group at our church is currently reading Bonhoeffer’s “God is In the Manger”–a series of Advent devotional musings written  while he was held by the Nazis in Tegel Prison.  From that dark and cheerless place come words of light for every age:  “And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God.”  May your sojourn in the wilderness be seen to come from God…

God Bless Us, Everyone                       Horace Brown King

My encounters with Biblical passages assigned to the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

A new season of the Christian Year–a New Day?– begins this weekend with the First Day of Advent.  This mysterious season is often ignored because it’s a dark period of waiting for the light of Christmas.  The secular world has already proclaimed Christmas WITHOUT waiting:  homes in my neighborhood boast lights on their landscaping, and some have inflatable snowmen and plastic reindeer.  Black Friday and Cyber Monday attest to our basic faith that the Right Gift will ensure domestic tranquility for at least a few months…  As Santa sharpens his Claws, some of us will acknowledge a few weeks of darkness as we strain for the Light.

The writer of Isaiah 64:1-9 (prior to 515 BC) speaks of Israel’s disorientation upon returning from exile, and the attached loss of community awareness.  “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth…. There is no one who calls on your name…”  A remarkably contemporary commentary!  Out of this darkness comes a plea for forgiveness, and a reminder that “we are all [God’s] people”.  Yes, it is dark.

Paul opens his pungent Letter to the Corinthians with words of appreciation (I, 1:3-9).  He thanks God that they are “not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ”.  In our Darkness before the Dawn, it’s right to consider existing strengths.  The Church in Corinth expected the Ultimate Advent to occur any time now:  they saw their role as one of preparation for the great and glorious day, in order that they may be blameless.  As they waited, they put candles in their windows to guide the ChristChild and to dispel the social gloom surrounding. Yes, it is dark.

Mark’s Gospel (13:24-37) is cheerless.  As the Son of Man returns to earth, both sun and moon will be snuffed.  Sailors & others who depend on the stars for guidance (astrologers, too?) will find nothing to guide them.  So “Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.”  Although centuries have elapsed, can we yet trust that there’s light beyond darkness?  Seers through the ensuing decades have announced the End of the World; although we laugh at them and their craziness, there’s a soul-shared anticipation that God is about to do a new thing.  One thing’s for sure:  yes, it is dark.

Pastor Michelle had an illuminating comment the other day:  we don’t light a candle if it’s not dark.  The Advent message then may be to acknowledge the Dark–and God’s Presence even though.

O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thy justice here;                  disperse the gloomy clouds of night, and death’s dark shadows put to flight.         Rejoice!  Rejoice!  Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
God Bless Us, Every One                         Horace Brown King

My thoughts about scripture lessons for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

Hey!  Anybody here?  Anyone in charge of this messy world, this mish-mash of humanity all trying to get the best of each other?  Only a narcissist, a poseur would want to try to run things in such an unpredictable place.  Pipeline spills and traffic jams are but symptoms of a tarnished culture based on materialism.  To whom shall I complain?  Is there anybody who actually cares?  Scripture lessons for this weekend help us to celebrate the Reign of Christ, and may resonate with those disillusioned because their Thanksgiving didn’t look like Norman Rockwell’s…

The Ezekiel reading (34:11-16, 20-24)  addresses those who long for the restoration of Israel and the Good Old Days.  Despite their scattering, God’s People will be personally gathered from the clouds and darkness, and brought to “their own land”.    Those who’ve gotten fat by pushing & shoving will go to The Sale, while those who’re respectful and sharing will live in pleasant pastures under the guidance of the Good Shepherd, a reincarnation of David.

St. Paul wasn’t a sheep guy, so you won’t find them mentioned in the Ephesian lesson (1:15-23).  You WILL find the affirmation that God has given control of All Things to Christ, “far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named”.   To me, this is good news, since I’m really fatigued with running my head into the wall by standing up for immigrant rights, Social Security and environmental protection.  No victory dance yet–but we do have permission and direction to live in mutual care and responsibility as we believe that God’s Kingdom is really happening.

Only Matthew includes the Judgment of Sheep and Goats (25:31-46) in the Gospel account.  His corner of the Church, mostly of the Jewish tradition, is well-steeped in the shepherd/sheep analogy.  But he takes it further to surprise both Sheep & Goats with an observation of their compassion:  “WHEN, Lord did we see you…?”  And the litmus test dealt with “the least of these” who were nourished, clothed and affirmed –or not.  The purpose then & now is not to terrorize the timid into avoiding eternal fire, but to remind all believers that we’re accountable to the needy of our society.  The day will come, evidently, when those who’ve talked the talk will be asked how they’ve walked the walk.

Words of Henri Nouwen bolster me for these worrisome seasons:  “What is new is that we no longer experience the many things, people, and events as endless causes for worry, but begin to experience them as the rich variety of ways in which God makes [God’s] presence known to us.”  (ALL THINGS NEW)  Rejoice and Be Thankful!

God Bless Us, Every One                           Horace Brown King

My wrestling with the lections for the upcoming weekend may be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com