by Stacey Denny | Nov 21, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
We’re having family Thanksgiving on Friday this year, which would have been unthinkable when I was a kid, like having church on Monday instead of Sunday. It just wasn’t done. But Spencer is at the firehouse this Thursday, so we moved the family dinner to Friday, even...
by Stacey Denny | Nov 17, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
When I was 6 years-old, my great-uncle Fritz died and I wanted to go to his funeral, not because I was especially fond of him, I barely knew him, but because I’d never seen a dead person, except in the movies. My brother Glenn, the veteran of several funerals, had...
by Stacey Denny | Nov 10, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Winter arrived this past week, and with it, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), when the lack of sunlight plunges many of us into despair. The solution, of course, is Florida, which raises other difficulties, namely snakes. When I said winter arrived, you...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO The year I turned 21, the television show Cheers aired on NBC. I was working at Public Service Indiana and several of my co-workers wanted to take me to a bar. I had only been in one bar my entire life, the Green Lantern in Danville, when I was 8 or 9 and...
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...
