by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 26, 2024 | Easter
Easter after Resurrection Sunday One of the challenges of the Christian calendar for pastors is that we often put so much energy into Holy Week, that by the time we reach Easter Sunday, and particularly, the afternoon of Easter Sunday, all we want to do is rest:...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 13, 2024 | Enslaved, Mission Trips, Missional Church
The Life of Saint Patrick So I am first of all a simple country person, a refugee, and unlearned. I do not know how to provide for the future. But this I know for certain, that before I was brought low, I was like a stone lying deep in the mud. Then he who is powerful...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 5, 2024 | Movie Reviews
My Early Soundtrack What music shaped your early life? For most of us, our parents’ musical tastes probably were our starting place. That music made a deep impression on what we like — and don’t like (ahem, Steely Dan for me). Most of the music I grew up...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 6, 2024 | Lent, Memory
The Necessity of Memory Memory—or, more actively, remembering—plays an all-important role in our lives. Our culture likes us to focus on the now, “looking forward rather than looking back”—to be people of action, focused on doing—rather than contemplating...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 31, 2024 | TPW News
Update: April 9, 2024 The TPW team got access to the new site in mid-March and have been working with the web developers at Rebar to get the site ready for launch. The site looks great and we’re fine-tuning everything from the content to the formatting to make...
