by Guy Sayles | May 26, 2014 |
Prompted by a phrase in the New Testament (1 Peter 3:16), I’ve been pondering the vital importance of reverence and gentleness. Reverence is about acknowledging our limits. I don’t know everything and can’t do everything. Sometimes, I am wrong about...
by Guy Sayles | May 18, 2014 |
Some of you asked about the prayer for mercy which was part of my sermon today. Here it is; I hope you will find it helpful. O God, remind me always that my life is your gift, and that I live under, and rest in, your Mercy. Gone forever is my once-proud...
by Guy Sayles | May 14, 2014 |
French poet Paul Eluard said: “There is another world, but it is in this one.” Late one afternoon last week, after a long walk around town, I sat for a while on a bench near the courthouse in City-County Plaza. Almost directly in front of me, on the stone-paved...
by Guy Sayles | May 6, 2014 |
Here is the Call to Stewardship from this past Sunday. Some of you had asked to see it again: Commodities, things, labor, experiences and gifts all have cost, price, value, and worth. Cost is the amount of money it takes to plant and harvest, mine,...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 22, 2014 |
Not long after I came to Asheville, the Republican Men’s Club of Buncombe County invited me to their breakfast meeting to tell them about myself and my hopes for our church’s future. It’s not my practice to speak at meetings, formal or informal, of political...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 21, 2014 |
We have a deep and pressing need for hope. It takes hope for parents to bring a baby into the world, to hold a little one in their arms and to become, from that child’s first breath, the people most responsible for providing what that child needs and for shaping...
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