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PPC has been re-certified as an Earth Care congregation for 2016; this is our fifth year. We were pleased to receive a bee and insect house from the Charlotte Presbytery. “A bee and insect house supports the natural habitat of these useful creatures in your garden.  Wild bees us Read More →

Dad’s Day Some dads bring home the bacon, other dads cook it, almost all of them eat it, sneaking a slice or two of that crispy goodness when Mom’s not looking.   My dad perfected the art of the Dagwood Sandwich, and taught me the tricks of the trade, how to pile assorted meats a Read More →

Mother’s Day, 2016 Walt McCanless Mothers are people too…. more than the roles they play, but my how many roles they are asked to play: Alarm clock with five minute snooze function that rings with ever increasing volume, “Time to get up!” “ Time To Get Up!” “TIME TO GET UP!” Washer, d Read More →

Today is metaphor day, a day not unlike the fogged in bay with men in small craft searching for their way by shadows, and dim, distant lights…. like a rustle in the leaves made by a varmints flight, What was it?  Did you see?  “Well, it was like….”   The plight of tho Read More →

Mercy to Music “Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me…” Help me to hear what you see, and see what you speak, to know as  I am known, to grow where I am sown. To reach for those untouched, and release the life I’ve clutched; to throw caution to the wind, if a kindness I might send. Read More →

THE STORY OF THE 2014 TIM LIPKA MEMORIAL GOLF CLASSIC TWAS THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, DAY NUMBER  ZERO AND SEVEN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND, TEN YEARS AND FOUR THE DAY WAS CRISP AND CLOUDLESS, SURELY A GRANT FROM HEAVEN FOR FIFTY ONE GOLFERS HAD RESERVED A SPOT IN THIS TOURNEY OF L Read More →

Philemon…. Philemon is the master, the slave holder, the old southern plantation owner who’s a lifetime deacon in the First Baptist Church in the town bearing his name. His family settled there, started growing cotton and pretty soon had built a cotton gin and began ginning othe Read More →

“In the evening you shall know that it was the lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord…”    Exodus 16 Reminds me of the prayer by an elderly and poor African-American woman. In the evening she would pray: Read More →

Don’t Turn Aside (Exodus 3) “…The angel of YHWH appeared to Moses in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up…..” And the voice of caution whispered into Moses’ ear: “Moses, if you are going to Read More →

“God has decided not to be remote, but immediate.”  (Rowan Williams) An especially good article on prayer by Rowan Williams in the Aug. 6, 2014 Christian Century magazine expounded upon some golden nuggets from Origen On Prayer.  Origen (approx. 150 – 254 CE), an early Christian Read More →