Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 49 December 6, 2021 Pearl Harbor and Other Traumas Tomorrow we remember Pearl Harbor Day. That day in 1941 began our nation’s entrance into World War II and gave hundreds of thousands of young men really bad memories. As I child I knew a …
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You Did All You Could…
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 48 November 29, 2021 You Did All You Could… “You did all you could,” I said to a gentleman in my congregation two Sunday’s ago. We were talking over a cup of coffee following worship. His family sat around him. The man, on the …
Fire House Generations
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 47 November 22, 2021 Fire House Generations During this past week I had the solemn duty to conduct two funeral services. The two gentlemen who died were from the same family. They were in-laws. A married couple from the church had each experienced the …
Veteran’s Day; Celebration or Solemn?
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 46 November 15, 2021 Veteran’s Day; Celebration or Solemn? During this past week, all over Facebook I have been watching posts that wish people a “happy Veterans Day. The sentiment is nice but too many veterans have suffered too much for this to be …
Living Saints
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 45 November 8, 2021 Living Saints Last week we celebrated “All Saints Day” during our worship. It is our custom during this celebration to read off the names of our church members who entered God’s nearer presence during the prior year. We celebrate the …
Thank You, General Powell, Son Of Immigrants
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 44 November 1, 2021 Thank You, General Powell, Son Of Immigrants It has been more than a week since the death of General Colin Powell. I was saddened when I first heard the news. I had never heard of him until the First Gulf …
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Moving Away or Moving Towards?
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 43 October 25, 2021 Moving Away or Moving Towards? After I was born I came home to my parent’s house, was put in a bedroom, and there I stayed until I left for college. Moving was not anything I had experienced although I did …
Grandsons and Christian Mentoring
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 42 October 18, 2021 Grandsons and Christian Mentoring My younger grandson turned two years old this week. In just a few months my older one will be three years old. It does not seem possible that close to three years ago my life changed …
One Young Man Lived and One Young Man Died
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 41 October 11, 2021 One Young Man Lived and One Young Man Died My Sunday afternoons are usually a mixture of happiness and fatigue. I’m happy after worship and the chance to interact with congregation members. I always feel fatigue when the adrenalin declines. …
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Grief Delayed
Monday Ministerial Musings By Rev. Mark William Ennis 2021 Blog Number 40 October 4, 2021 Grief Delayed Saturday I spent part of my day away from my normal schedule of sermonizing and paused to watch an online memorial service for an important mentor, Rev. Allan Janssen. He died more than a year ago, in April …
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