http://publicsafetyministries.org "Serving Those Who Protect" by Promoting Spiritual Fitness in the Public Safety Professions Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:43:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My son Pete is home from Alaska (Actually, his home is Alaska, he is visiting his old home, our home) for a long weekend and he mentioned it has been awhile since I've written a post. I knew it had been awhile, and I'd been meaning to write something ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/326 I know I've been reserving Thursdays for a spiritual fitness exercise, but today I want to share something I've learned this past week. I had heard of CaringBridge but never utilized it before this past week. Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/325 Yup, I'm hooked, hooked on the Discovery Channel's game show "CASH CAB". This guy is the show's host, Ben Bailey. The premise of the show is simple, you get in the cab, Ben asks general knowledge questions for the duration of the ride and you get cash for ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/324 I may be dating myself here, but today's Thursday Spiritual Fitness Exercise is "Spinning Plates". My memory of spinning plates, a sort of juggling act, came as a kid watching the Ed Sullivan Show. A man would come on stage and proceed to place spinning plates on the ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/323 Welcome to our Thursday afternoon "spiritual fitness exercise gathering". I made a commitment at the annual MCPA Executive Training Institute prayer breakfast to make an exercise post every Thursday afternoon. The goal being to create a regular and consistent spiritual fitness gathering for public safety professionals, even if ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/316 As many of you are aware, I am pursuing ordination as an ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) pastor. As part of that process I am currently taking three seminary classes: Preaching II, Old Testament Prophets, and Pastoral Care. Yesterday I was doing some work for my Pastoral ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/315 I am writing this from the Holiday Inn in downtown Duluth as we conclude our annual Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association Executive Training Institute. It is our annual chiefs conference. Once again it was a great event. At this years prayer breakfast I spoke of creating more ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/314 As a pastoral assistant at Faith Lutheran Church in Waconia, I was asked to write a message for the "Good News" Column in the local paper, The Waconia Sun Patriot. Click here to read it if you are interested. Take Care http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/312 I recently received this prayer from a friend of mine. We are in the same ordination program and we both serve in unique ministry settings. She works with the the Native American community and I with Public Safety. We share ideas with each other regarding different ways ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/307 This morning I was up before dawn (which isn't so early these days) driving up to Big Lake to make a dog food pick up. People always ask about feeding the dogs, how much you buy, how much does it cost...... I quit keeping track of how much ... http://publicsafetyministries.org/archives/302