OUT OF MY MIND: A Prayer for the World
A Prayer for the World (In Light of Ongoing Events) Lord, it seems like every day you become more distant As we awaken to daily senseless...
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Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Prayer For Peace
A few years ago, I was asked to write a Prayer for Peace to be included in a book written by a colleague. It seems fitting that I share...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: The Great Departure
The season of Lent is a time for us to give up what we are, what we have been, in order to become what we are called to be. Scholar of...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Feb 23, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Flawed But Hopeful
For some years now historians, gossip magazines, and the media have highlighted Martin Luther King’s flaws, weaknesses, and brokenness. ...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Peace Under Pressure
Feelings of stress are caused by the body’s instinct to defend itself. This instinct is good in emergencies, such as getting out of the...
Rev. Jonathon Clinesmith
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
Afghan Refugee Response
“He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.”-...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Feb 10, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: God's Timing
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to wait in long lines at a restaurant, or being stuck in traffic during rush hour, or being put...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: What Is Your Call?
If you have been in church culture for a while, you have heard the term “calling” many times. You may have wondered what that term means....
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Slaying the Giants
Do you ever wonder why certain people rise to meet a great challenge and others don’t? You’ve heard the story of David and Goliath,...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Jan 20, 2022
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: The Power to Change the World
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, a young, unknown Baptist preacher came home to find a large crowd gathered in the front of his house,...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Fate or Faith?
Too often, we confuse “fate” with “faith.” Nothing could be more different! How many times have you heard someone say – or said yourself...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Finding Christmas
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some of the people in the Christmas story who missed Christmas: the innkeeper, the religious...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Be Like Mary
Picture the scene: An angel has just informed Mary that she, a virgin, would soon be pregnant and, as a matter of fact, will be...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
OUT OF MY MIND: Will You Miss Christmas?
Every year, Christmas comes, and Christmas goes. It often comes quickly, before we are ready; and it often goes by without much notice. ...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
OUT OF MY MIND: The Rush to Christmas
We are impatient people, aren’t we? Every year around this time, I hear it. Sometimes, I get bombarded by it: “Why aren’t we singing more...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Out of My Mind: The Shadow Knows
A Bible teacher once told the story of a time she noticed a boy sitting in the hallway with a stern look on his face, barking orders to...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
Out of my Mind: In God’s Image
What does it mean that we are made in God’s image? Does it mean that God has two arms, two legs, and a long-flowing beard as depicted on...
Rev. Dr. Dyton Owen
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Out of my Mind: How Do You Define Being Good?
What is your definition of “being good”? What would you say if asked that question? Many years ago, a great Jewish prophet gave the...
Susan Waite
- Oct 24, 2019
- 2 min
24 Hours Without My Phone or The Importance of Disconnecting!
Did you know that there’s such a thing as National Day of Unplugging? It was started by a Jewish organization with the goal of...
michael reynolds
- Sep 13, 2019
- 1 min
Good News
Looks like it's up to us to reveal the Good News ...
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