by Stacey Denny | Jun 11, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO My family on my Dad’s side were coal miners from southern Illinois, to the chagrin of my paternal grandmother who wanted everyone to think she was from England and personal friends with the Queen. She and my grandfather had lived in London for about ten...
by Stacey Denny | Apr 29, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO When I applied for seminary, I had to undergo psychological testing to discern my mental fitness for ministry. This was in 1988, when Chris Gautier’s grandmother, Dr. Sue Cardwell, did the psychological evaluations for Christian Theological Seminary. She is...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 27, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages
We’ve been hearing the word unprecedented a lot this month. My friend Howard Macy recently said the frequency of the word unprecedented is unprecedented. Every time I watch the news, I hear the word unprecedented, as if for the past 245 years, the United States has...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 12, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages
This week we witnessed an attack on our nation’s capital by a misguided and ignorant mob, committed to the usurpation of our presidential election, spurred on by a man whose appetite for power and adulation knows no bounds, a modern-day Nero who tweeted while...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 21, 2020 | GraceTalk Messages
We are three weeks into this sermon series I’m calling “Things We’re Supposed to Believe, But Maybe Shouldn’t.” When I first began, I was thinking about theological clichés we’ve been taught that bear further scrutiny, but it occurred to me this week that there are...
