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Music Monday: It's Finally Here!
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBThis is the Monday I’ve been waiting for! It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving Day, 2023! And the Christmas Album, “We Need A Little Christmas” is finally available! We are making this 10 song Christmas project available online via Facebook, Soundcloud, my website and Youtube. There are links in the description, but here is a quick synopsis of what to expect from the various venues. Facebook will have some of the songs from the album as Music Mondays through the holidays. Soundcloud will ha...
Wisdom Wednesday: Thanksgiving 2023
November 22, 2023 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, November 22, 2023. It is the day before Thanksgiving here in the US. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, I will be with my wife and our sons here in Lynchburg. I have a mighty feast planned, and I have to get the absolute last of my Thanksgiving meal ingredients later today. But really, I suspect I will have to get the absolute last of my ingredients for the th...
Wisdom Wednesday: Advent Mission Festival
November 15, 2023 12:00 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Halloween ended a few weeks ago, and Thanksgiving Day in the US is next week. But I’ve noticed that most of the grocery stores and big box stores have had their Christmas goods out for display for awhile now. Including my current favorite snack, Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes, which a church member brought to me last week. So tasty...
Music Monday: Great Things
November 13, 2023 16:15 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBThe was frost on the pumpkin this morning! And that has absolutely nothing to do with Music Monday. It’s the 13th of November, 2023. A lot of things are happening - the Christmas program at the church is just a little over a month away, and I still have songs to write supplemental charts for, and practicing to do. The Christmas project Lynn Nash and I have will be released 2 weeks from today! Lynn sent me some really nice videos of his outdoor fireplace that I will use as a backdrop for...
Wisdom Wednesday: The Methodist Story
November 08, 2023 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, November 8, 2023 Peakland United Methodist Church is finishing up with this book, Being a United Methodist Christian which explores our beliefs, our best practices and our history as a United Methodist Christian. This week and next, we are talking about the three general rules of being a United Methodist Christian. John Wesley created the three rules i...
Music Monday: I Give You My Heart
November 06, 2023 16:11 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBIt’s Monday, the 6th of November. Good Grief, where did this year go to? I was looking through my files yesterday, trying to decide what to offer for today’s Music Monday. I ran across this arrangement thatLyn Nash and I did a few months back and, honestly, had totally forgotten about - I bet he has too! We’ve spend so much time working on our Christmas project, that everything else kinda gets lost sometimes. Speaking of the Christmas project, it will be released in just a few short weeks...
Wisdom Wednesday: The Methodist Story, Part 2
November 01, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 5 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Peakland United Methodist Church is reading this book, Being a United Methodist Christian which explores our beliefs, our best practices and our history as a United Methodist Christian. Last Sunday, I talked about how United Methodists understand grace, God’s loving attitude and God’s loving actions that surround us all our days. Sometim...
Music Monday: God So Loved
October 30, 2023 16:35 - 7 minutes - 6.54 MBI know, I know - it’s hard to believe, but it’s Monday again! Part of my job at Peakland UMC is listening to Praise and Worship music, trying to determine what songs would work well in our Horizons service - that’s the Contemporary service we offer on Sunday mornings. Thee are sooooo many songs out there, and a lot of them are really appealing, but won’t necessarily work for us. That’s another story another time. Recently, I ran across this song and it immediately appealed to me. I didn’t e...
Music Monday: Because He Lives
October 23, 2023 17:28 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MBHey, it’s Monday again! It’s the 23rd of October 2023. You ever lose something - search everywhere and just can’t find it? That’s what happened with today’s Music Monday song. I found the part of the recording that my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, had recorded, but could not find the original file I had started with. I liked it, for the most part, but there were a few things I wanted to change, actually need to change. I couldn’t find that original file, so I started over. Just my orig...
Wisdom Wednesday: Being United Methodist – The Moravians
October 18, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.74 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Peakland United Methodist Church is reading this book, Being a United Methodist Christian which explores our beliefs, our best practices and our history as a United Methodist Christian. This past Sunday, Rev. Denise Bates preached at Peakland and emphasized that as United Methodist Christians, we lift our hearts to God in worship and we...
Music Monday: The Heart Of Worship
October 16, 2023 17:28 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MBSo yesterday, which was Sunday the 15th of October, I was sitting at the piano in the Fellowship Hall going through the songs we were going to use in our Horizons service in a few hours. I usually get to church on Sunday mornings around 6:30 AM - it gives me an opportunity to prepare, rehearse some and just collect my thoughts and spend some quiet time with God. As I was getting ready to run through the last song, the thought slipped into my mind that this would be a good song for a Music Mo...
Wisdom Wednesday: A Brand Plucked From The Fire
October 11, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.5 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, October 11, 2023 On February 9, 1709, a five-year-old boy by the name of John Wesley was caught in a house fire. Young John Wesley was the son of Susanna Wesley and Rev Samuel Wesley, a priest in the church of England, and they lived in the rectory in the town of Epworth in central England. On the night of February 9, the rectory caught fire, and John w...
Music Monday: 10,000 Reasons
October 09, 2023 15:37 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MBWouldn’t you know it - it’s Monday again! I took the day off yesterday - that being a Sunday. I don’t like to miss for a number of reasons, but sometimes you just have to take a break, so thanks to all who covered for me! I spent a little time yesterday getting ready for Music Monday, and in the search for something to share with you, I remember this recording my friend Mike Petrikonis and I made of the Matt Redman song, 10, 000 Reasons. Mike took ownership of this song, and I believe what...
Wisdom Wednesday: Starting our study on Being United Methodist Christians
October 04, 2023 11:00 - 3 minutes - 7.3 MBAndrew talks about what it means to him.
Music Monday: Grazin' In The Grass
October 02, 2023 19:16 - 6 minutes - 12.5 MBBack in the day, my Flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, and I spent a lot of time together playing in our High School Band, the Pep Band, and then afterwards we played in a rock band for a number of years. He played trumpet and I played trombone, and our friend W. B. played sax and hammond organ. We had a lot of fun, back in the day! I remember, back in the day, sitting at the piano and playing some of the really classic rock songs from Bread (If A Picture Paints . .. ), Chicago (Color My World), ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Being United Methodist
September 27, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 9.5 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, September 27, 2023. + Just over 30 years ago, I was a student at Indiana University and worshipping at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Indiana. One Sunday in January, the church announced they would be sponsoring a trip for college students to work with Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Georgia over spring break. I turned to my best fri...
Music Monday: When I Don't Know What to Do
September 25, 2023 14:13 - 6 minutes - 13 MBWhen I start setting up my computer and keyboard to start working on a new arrangement, a lot of times I have no idea where it’s going. In fact, there are times when I don’t really know how it’s going to start! Now I’ve been making sound tracks for a long time haha. Way back in the day I worked at a music store right at the time when the MIDI communication system and keyboards were just developing. So as it grew and developed, so did I. It’s amazing what one can do with a keyboard, a compu...
Wisdom Wednesday: Liminal
September 20, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 9.94 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, September 20, 2023. + Do you know the word liminal? L I M I N A L liminal. It means a transitional or an in-between time or space. A hallway is a liminal space between two rooms. A liminal time is what I’m experiencing this week at Peakland: we are in-between big church events. In the past two weeks, we started our fall kickoff with huge successes. ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Rise Aganist Hunger
September 13, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.08 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, September 13, 2023. + This past Sunday, September 3, Peakland gathered for worship in our sanctuary and in our fellowship hall and online for Sunday worship. We sang, we prayed, we listened to the scriptures and how Jesus tells us to fight like a Christian. In worship on Sunday, we had babies and children and youth and young adults, not so young adults...
Music Monday: Blue Skies
September 11, 2023 14:21 - 5 minutes - 10.3 MBI was out walking our dog, Joey, this morning and noticed that the skies were blue - not a cloud to be seen! In years past I would take advantage of a day like today and hop on my motorcycle and head for the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are several Overlooks that have absolutely amazing views - especially on blue sky days! Irving Berlin wrote a song that my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, and I recorded a few years back. In fact it’s the title cut for an album we released. I thought of that this ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Fall Kick Off
September 06, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.26 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, September 6, 2023. + Labor Day was this past Monday, marking the unofficial end to summer. I heard yesterday that one of our youth was sad that this weekend was the last time in the outdoor swimming pools, and then another church member said, end of summer was fine with her. She didn’t like the hot weather anyway. I do like September weather, and I am ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Pave The Way, Part 2
August 30, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.23 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, August 30, 2023. I am not in the parking lot today, as I’m recording this it’s wet and soggy outside and no place for middle aged pastors or expensive video cameras. Last Wednesday I spoke to you about our parking lot, our 40-year-old parking lot in need of a lot of repairs. This past Sunday, Don Weschler, Peakland’s chair of the Common Table, spoke...
Music Monday: The Laid Back Doxology
August 28, 2023 15:45 - 2 minutes - 3.99 MBA few weeks back I shared with you the majestic version of the Doxologies we use in our church services. It was an arrangement I played on the organ, which is in our sanctuary at Peakland UMC. Sometimes you just want to shout out praise, and that is certainly a wonderful way to do it. At other times, though, you might just want to offer that same praise in a little more laid back fashion. I enlisted my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, to help me with this. Here is our laid back version of the...
Music Monday: Happy Birthday To . . . .
August 21, 2023 15:25 - 3 minutes - 7.15 MBIt’s the 21st of August, 2023. While I was out working our dog, Joey, this morning, I was remembering that it is our daughter-in-law’s birthday today. And it occurred to me that it was a Monday, and I needed a Music Monday! So why not honor our birthday gal, and give the rest of you a birthday song to play whenever it’s your birthday, or someone else’s birthday! So happy birthday, Bri! Thank you for being you! And we all hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Wisdom Wednesday- New Horizons Worship
August 16, 2023 11:00 - 2 minutes - 5.28 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, August 16. I am standing in Peakland’s fellowship hall to show you the new thing we are doing at the Sunday morning Horizons Worship service. We’ve switched things up! When you come to Horizons worship this Sunday, you’ll be worshipping in a new direction. Instead of facing this side wall, we’ve set up the chairs to face the East, toward the rising of t...
Music Monday: Going Up
August 14, 2023 17:45 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MBI received quite a favorable response from the song I used 2 weeks ago, from an album my son, Matt, and I did (Turn It Loose, if you forgot or missed it) that I thought I would offer another one from that same project. It’s actually the title song from the project - “Going Up”. I realized a few weeks ago, that some of you might want to listen to some of these songs again, but maybe not all my commentary, so I created a new playlist on Soundcloud, where my songs are hosted, that are just the ...
Music Monday: Still / Draw Me Close
July 31, 2023 16:30 - 5 minutes - 11 MBI almost forgot to do today’s Music Monday. It entered my mind several times over the weekend but this morning I needed a little jogging, once again from my Flugel Horn friend, Lyn Nash. I was on the phone with him talking about a mix I had just completed of a Christmas song we were working on and he was saying, “don’t put that on Music Monday!” And I’m thinking to myself, good thing he said that . . . So as I begin to think about today’s MM, I ran across a medley of 2 songs I had put toge...
Wisdom Wednesday: God In The Wilderness, Psalm 23
July 26, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.57 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Throughout the month of July, we at Peakland have been reading and discussing this book: God in the Wilderness, written by Rabbi Jamie Korngold. This past Sunday morning in worship, I discussed chapter 6 of the book, Hear the Still Small Voice Within. We read the story of Elijah who was on the run following a religious battle between the...
Music Monday: Turn It Loose
July 24, 2023 14:01 - 6 minutes - 11.7 MBBefore July totally gets away from me, I wanted to let all of you know that my flugelhorn friend Lynn Nash and I are recording a Christmas album. Now, I’m a fan of a little Christmas in July, but I was voted down on that so I will not be playing any of the songs we have recorded, although I would like to, I won’t. Shoot. I will tell you that so far it’s a pretty wide selection of songs - everything from “It’s The Holiday Season” to “O Holy Night”. The project is a pretty ambitious undertaki...
Wisdom Wednesday: Imperfect
July 19, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 12.7 MBThroughout the month of July, we at Peakland have been reading and discussing this book: God in the Wilderness, written by Rabbi Jamie Korngold. This book has been important to Andrew, Peakland’s amazing deacon, and I’m grateful he’s introduced this book to us at Peakland. We’ve been using this book in our Sunday worship and last Sunday, Pastor Dave spoke about Sabbath and the ongoing question of how we keep the sabbath day sacred and holy. Used to be under the blue laws, most of the wor...
Music Monday: Friend Of God
July 17, 2023 13:33 - 5 minutes - 9.98 MBIt’s been raining cats and dogs here! I took Joey, our 85 pound Golden Doodle, with me yesterday up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to record some “B” Roll for the church, and specifically, Music Monday. The video that have been using is not very long and I have to loop it a number of times to cover a MM segment. That’s always bugged me so I decided to do something about it. Well, it turns out from all this rain we have been experiencing, the small lake dam on the BRP that’s close to the James Ri...
Wisdom Wednesday: God In The Wilderness (and a fascinating insight into Andrew)
July 12, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.27 MBAndrew talks about his sermon this past Sunday, referencing the first two chapters of the book: "God In The Wilderness", and then shares an interesting insight into who Andrew is!
Music Monday: There Is A Hope
July 10, 2023 14:15 - 6 minutes - 11.5 MBTommy Walker is one of my favorite Christian Artist and Composer. And this song, in particular, is one of my favorites. I know I say that about a lot of songs, but, hey, one can’t have too many favorites! I did this track for our Horizons service a few years ago and then updated it with some brass, with the help of my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash. Lest you think he is the only friend I have, that is not the case haha! I have at least one more . . . . At any rate, I redid the track again, ...
Wisdom Wednesday: The Bar and The Church
July 06, 2023 01:30 - 6 minutes - 11.3 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, July 5, 2023 I started reading an autobiography this weekend called The Tender Bar, written by J.R. Moehringer. J.R. is just a few years older than I am, and he writes about growing up in the mid1970s and early 80s in the town of Manhasset on Long Island. His childhood is straight out of a Dickens novel. His famous radio DJ father abandoned him. He and...
Music Monday: God Bless America
July 03, 2023 14:39 - 6 minutes - 12.8 MBThe 4th of July is tomorrow. Despite all of the not so good things that happen in our county - despite the unrest, despite the down-right unbelievable things people can do to each other, and think it’s ok to do, I still believe this is a great country. Starting on July 1, and continuing until the 7th I am participating in an amateur radio event called 13 Colonies. As a ham radio operator, I am representing Va in this ham radio celebration of the original 13 Colonies. My personal call sign ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Women Clergy
June 28, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 8.9 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, June 28, 2023. This week is a happy and busy week at Peakland! We are hosting Vacation Bible School in the mornings at Peakland with 50 or so bright and active children and a dozen or so slightly overwhelmed adult and youth volunteers. It’s a Food Truck VBS party! We are looking at the Bible stories in which God’s love is partnered with the foods tha...
Music Monday: Jesus Saves
June 27, 2023 20:02 - 4 minutes - 7.9 MBWell, it’s Tuesday again - good grief! We are in VBS this week and yesterday just got away from me - so, alas, it’s Tuesday and I’m just now getting around to Music Monday, even though it’s Tuesday, I still need to do Music Monday - on Tuesday - yeah. Last week I featured a hymn that we put a little pizzazz into - Come Thou Fount. I got some positive comments about it, so figured why not feature another one?? I did this arrangement with my Flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash some months ago. U...
Music Monday: Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
June 19, 2023 14:35 - 4 minutes - 8.7 MBEvery once in a while, I pick an older hymn and try to do some interesting with it. Such is the case with this hymn - Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing. I enlisted my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, to help me with this arrangement. He played the melody on the first and third verses and I cover the melody on the 2nd verse. I struggled to figure out how to / what to do what that 2nd verse. I’m not a great soloist, as when it comes to improvising melodies on the piano. So I got frustrated try...
Wisdom Wednesday: Yitzhak
June 14, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Through the month of June, I’m posting my reflections on the scripture lessons for Sunday’s worship services. We’re reading from Genesis this month and following the family of Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants, and I’m using a wonderful translation of Genesis created by Dr. Everett Fox, who is a Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studi...
Wisdom Wednesday: Abram And Sarai
June 07, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, June 7, 2023 When I was a child in Sunday School, Miss Amanda, my Sunday School teacher, read us the story from the Old Testament of Daniel in the Lion’s Den. Daniel, a Jewish man, living in Babylon had been ordered by the Babylonian King not to pray to God, ...
Music Monday: The Doxology
June 05, 2023 14:19 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBAt one point in my life, I was an organ major in college. I gave it up ‘cause Bach and I don’t see eye to eye 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. I do enjoy playing the organ, though, and I am the organist here at Peakland UMC. While our organ is not a pipe organ, it is a fine instrument. One of my favorite pieces to play is the Doxology we sing on Sunday mornings. If you watch our online Sunday service, you will recognize the Doxologies we use in our church services as part of our response to h...
Wisdom Wednesday: Forging A New Path, Part 4
May 31, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, June 1, 2023 These past weeks, I’ve been sharing my thoughts with you on a book I’ve been reading Forging a New Path: moving the church forward in a post-pandemic world, written by one of my mentors Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter, a United Methodist clergy who now d...
Wisdom Wednesday: Forging A New Path, Part 3
May 24, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, May 24, 2023 The past two weeks, I’ve been sharing my thoughts with you on a book I’ve been reading, Forging a New Path: moving the church forward in a post-pandemic world, written by one of my mentors Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter, a United Methodist clergy who no...
Wisdom Wednesday: Pandemics
May 17, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Last Wednesday, today and next Wednesday, I’m sharing my thoughts with you on this book I’m reading now: Forging a New Path: moving the church forward in a post-covid pandemic world, written by a mentor of mine Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter. I had p...
Music Monday: Revelation Song
May 16, 2023 15:44 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MBWell I did it again…. I was talking to my Flugelhorn friend Lynn Nash yesterday afternoon late and he said where’s Music Monday????? Ooopppsss. And then he suggested one we had recorded a few years back. After listening to it this morning, and making a few additions and subtractions, I am please to offer this arrangement to you. Some of our singers came in and recorded, and Lynn added some majesty to it. Here is Revelation Song.
Wisdom Wednesday: Forging A New Path V2
May 10, 2023 11:00 - 8 minutes - 7.88 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Do you remember where you were and what you were doing on Friday, March 13, 2020? Do you remember that day, Friday, March 13, 2020. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. That morning, I was waiting to get a haircut from my barber...
Music Monday: Just A Little Talk
May 08, 2023 16:07 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MBOn Sunday mornings typically the choir will sing at the 11:00 service in the sanctuary. We also have an 8:30 service in the sanctuary that pretty much mirrors the 11:00 service, but perhaps a little more relaxed. Same bulletin, same everything, except the choir does not sing. Noémi conducts the choir now, so I accompany the choir and it’s typically on the piano. So at 8:30 I sorta rearrange the choir song that’s sung at 11:00 and make a piano solo out of it. Yesterday the choir sang the old ...
Wisdom Wednesday: Tradition
May 03, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBGrace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. I’m posting videos each Wednesday sharing devotions, reflections, church news, and book studies. Today is Wednesday, May 3, 2023 This Saturday, May 6 is Derby Day, the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at the storied Churchill Downs. I grew up in Southern Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Derby, which is traditionally on the first Saturday of May. G...
Music Monday: Fire And Rain
May 01, 2023 14:47 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBJames Taylor wrote this song at a time when he was going through some difficult stages in his life. I think we have all been there. While this song, lyrically, can make one feel melancholy, I find this arrangement to be uplifting! Ok, I’ll explain. I sent this arrangement to my son, Matt, who is without question the finest musician I have ever played with, to see what his thoughts might be. He sent back the second verse and last chorus that was totally unexpected. His bass guitar solo is...
Wisdom Wednesday: Forging A New Path
April 26, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.88 MBFor the past two years, I have been part of a course of study called creating a culture of renewal. CCR provides church leaders with insights into their own leadership styles, skills for making church conflict productive, and encourages us to dream like Jesus to claim Jesus’ vision for ourselves and for our congregation’s life and ministries. These past two years, I have met each month with a mentor, a person who is year ahead of me in the program, with a buddy, a clergy person here in Vir...