Dateline: Home Study

Our minister is on a sabbatical for the next few weeks so we are being graced with some guests in the pulpit; some are lay, some are professional, all are good. Today was especially nice because our former minister was preaching. He left about 10 years ago for another church and recently retired—moving back here when he did. Today was a special day.

His sermon today was on summer and all we had to be thankful for. It was one of his “let your mind wander” sermons as he reminisced about what summer meant to him. Perhaps my daughter summed it best when she said the weird thing about having him preach was that it wasn’t weird at all. He certainly brought some fond memories of some good times, including the best Vacation Bible School I’ve ever attended. A long time ago we did a week-long inter-generational VBS on Moses. I enjoyed it as an adult and the children enjoyed it as well. We old-timers still talk about it.