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Mixed emotions rule this time of year. Parents of five- and six-year-olds know their little ones are not so little anymore. You are glad...

-With Mother's Day just ahead, I wanted to share this reflection about my grandmother with a photo of her from the 1960s I cannot find....

*I shared a version of this post a few years ago, but recently found the original, which I had written even earlier to share at the close...

There it was again: “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” I was reading the “Seven Last Words” of Jesus from the cross, and had come to the...

(There are times when social media does you the favor of recycling around to remind you of something you wrote on the same day in years...

Our walk through the Season of Lent this year has drawn me back to the central truth of our faith that God is love and through God’s love...

Lent this year has settled on me with strong reminders that it is not about giving up something, like chocolate or television or...

A meditation on the Visitation, Luke 2:22-38. I think the old man’s words are some of the fiercest to be found in the scripture, if you...

*May we each pray with enduring love, faithfulness and intention what is deepest in our hearts today and in all seasons. Thank you, O Friend, for following and for your partnership in making true the good news of God's gift of eternal love. - Grateful, Bob Guffey O Lord / Dear Friend, All I want for Christmas is... a world filled with empathy, understanding, respect for others and God's creation, peace, love, humility, kindness, mercy, selflessness, just sharing, caring partn

In one way or another in his many works, Walter Brueggemann has asked his readers, “Shall we truly hear the Psalms?” I hear in his question a challenge to learn to hear the psalms as they were heard by the first hearers, hearers who were or were living the memories of the threats of exodus, exile and empire. I hear a call to be vulnerable to the history of the texts that we might be immersed in the praise, pain, trauma and urgency resident in these texts. I hear, too, a charg

While waiting to hear from an ophthalmologist about a cataract. (08.11.23) O LORD, Thank you for reminders of age that let me know life has beginnings and endings I cannot control. Thank you for the frustration of fatigue that says I need to let others share in the vocation of well-doing. Thank you for those occasional glitches in memory that push me to trust you as the One for whom I live “in remembrance of.” Thank you for aches and bruises that take just that little bit lo

To celebrate FSBC's 175th anniversary, our May 21st, 2023 worship service comprised of four different meditations from minister and...

To celebrate FSBC's 175th anniversary, our May 21st, 2023 worship service comprised of four different meditations from minister and...

To celebrate FSBC's 175th anniversary, our May 21st, 2023 worship service comprised of four different meditations from minister and...

To celebrate FSBC's 175th anniversary, our May 21st, 2023 worship service comprised of four different meditations from minister and...

One of the hallmarks of Freemason Street Baptist Church is our commitment to service. As we look to celebrate our 175th Anniversary, what a better way to do so than raising money to support the Clothing Closet? The Clothing Closet currently serves anywhere from 30-50 people each Friday, operating entirely on clothing donations from the community. Any funds raised will go towards the purchase of items for the clothing closet such as socks, denim and other heavily requested ite

As another school year draws nearer to a close, I’m thinking of teachers and thanking God for them, especially now. My mom and Angie’s, too, were schoolteachers, and I come from a generationally long line of teachers, including the current generation of aunts, uncles, nephews, and cousins. I am grateful for them all, and especially for the gift of being married to one of the finest teachers I have ever seen, too. (I haven’t forgotten that I work for a Teacher – THE Teacher, R

(a reposting, heartfelt and still true) It had been one of those nights when it felt as if, with enough of a shove, the entire world might split at the seams, coming apart, with no one nearby who was big enough to pick up the pieces. The day before had been Good Friday, the day the events of an unholy week, full of fury, anger, pathos, competing agendas — and dare we say, love? — had culminated in the murder of God. It was the day ambiguity about Jesus had melted away to re

What is it that makes a Christian a Christian? Is it following a particular philosophy or having an attitude of care and compassion for...

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV) On Saturday, March 4, 2023 members of our church...