Sunday Morning with the Kernstown Methodists

I am safely home from my short trip to the Shenandoah Valley.  I spent Sunday morning at the Kernstown United Methodist Church in Kernstown, VA where I spoke to a combined adult Sunday School class.

You may be curious about how I managed to string two speaking engagements together at a 275-year old Presbyterian Church and a 175-year-old United Methodist Church located within about a mile of one another.  As it turns out, Clay Knick, the pastor of Kernstown Methodist and a regular reader of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, invited me to speak about Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? at his church.  And then, about a week or so later, George Schember of the Opequon Presbyterian Church invited me to come to Winchester, VA to talk about Philip Vickers Fithian‘s 1775-1776 visit to the Shenandoah Valley.  I had no idea that these two churches were so close to one another.  What a coincidence.  (Or perhaps it was all providential!)

Clay Knick, his wife Lisa, and his daughter Melissa were wonderful hosts and it was a pleasure meeting them.  I also learned a few things.  Not only was my soul encouraged and strengthened by Clay’s sermon on the raising of Lazarus from the dead,  but I also learned that death and taxes are not the only things that are absolutely certain in life.  According to Clay, there are actually FOUR things that are certain in life: death, taxes, laundry, and trash.  I think I agree!  By the way, I was also mentioned in the sermon in order to illustrate the social networking power of Facebook! 

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