by Edwin Drewlo | Aug 3, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Personal, Poetry, Spiritual Formation
Recently, while visiting our son, his wife and their children in Portland, the City of Roses, we had occasion to visit the beautiful Rose Garden there. If you’ve been to Portland, you probably know about this Garden near the center of the City. There is...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Poetry, Uncategorized
I know of no Psalm that is more summary of what the Psalms, the Bible, or life is all about than Psalm 1. It is appropriate that this Psalm and the Psalter, the hymnbook of the Hebrew people, stands more or less at the center of the whole Bible. Psalm 1, as an...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Uncategorized
I’m pleased to announce that a second printing of my book, Thoughtful Adaptations to Change: Authentic Christian Faith in Postmodern Times, has just been launched. In Canada, the new edition is available at the Friesen Press Web-site. The Book is also available...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized
1 Corinthians 13 ends with the words, And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. Recently, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between these three virtues. Somehow, starting with the idea of hope, I landed on a...
by Edwin Drewlo | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Personal, Transitional Pastoral Ministry
This weekend, many of us have been deeply impacted by the news on Friday evening of a highway accident near us that claimed the life of someone we knew well and left her husband in critical condition in the hospital. This has affected me deeply on a personal level....
by Edwin Drewlo | May 11, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Personal
Except for Christmas and Easter I confess that it has not been my custom to preach from a lectionary or Christian calendar. This has probably been due to the fact that all of my life I have lived and worked in evangelical churches in which liturgy is not very common....
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