Every now and then the school where I teach asks me to offer a prayer (or “to say a few words”) before certain events. Last year after hearing one such invocation and discovering that I’m a minister, a colleague asked me what church I pastored. I answered and then inquired […]
Pastor Ben Strunk
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(*My family used to take an expedition from Florida to Ohio nearly every year to visit relatives. For various reasons we haven’t kept that tradition with as much continuity over the past decade or so. Thankfully, they’ve started to come down and see us fairly frequently so that we still […]
I remember Saturday mornings when I was a kid. My parents would take me bowling at Gold Crown Lanes, a bowling alley in East Ft. Myers off of Palm Beach Boulevard. (It’s since been torn down and now a small grassy field sits next to a cell phone store in […]
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One Monday several years ago a preacher friend of mine asked me if I was having a “Blue Monday.” I had never heard that particular expression before and wondered if perhaps, unbeknownst to me, I was not being my normal cheery self! After putting a big (and quick) smile on […]
One Monday several years ago a preacher friend of mine asked me if I was having a “Blue Monday.” I had never heard that particular expression before and wondered if perhaps, unbeknownst to me, I was not being my normal cheery self! After putting a big (and quick) smile on […]
I recently had to call our tv-provider about a discrepancy in our bill. I won’t tell you what company we’re with, but let’s just say I phoned in hoping to speak to someone DirectLy! The issue was that we had signed up for a plan six or eight weeks ago […]
During the month of Valentine’s Day commercials advertising online dating websites will doubtless be filling our television screens (if there’s any time available between the HUGE auto sales spots!). Some of these sites simply ask people for their name, address, occupation, and phone number and ‘match’ them with others in […]
As most of you know, in addition to pastoring I also teach Math to Middle Schoolers. Each August before the school year officially begins for students, the teachers come in a week ahead of time and go through various trainings. The title and subject matter of these annual sessions may […]
***For this month’s newsletter I revisited the first Christmas Gracelet from 2009. It speaks on one of my favorite Scriptures during this time of year, or any other season for that matter, that of Isaiah 9:6. I edited a few things and added a few things (surprise, surprise!—long-windedness is a […]