The Divine Crash

I am on twitter.com/revbtgilligan and I follow most people, but I make sure to follow as many pastors as possible.  I think that by following these pastors that I can learn from them and we can share ideas with each other.  However, I have noticed a trend that a lot of pastors do.  It [...]

On Sunday after church we held a blessing of the bikes.  Although, nothing really magical happens and bikes aren’t really “blessed” it was a prayer for the safety for the riders of Bikes of all kinds.  Below is the liturgy we used.  It is quick, about 7minutes going slowly, this is an adaptation from House [...]

Scripture: Jonah 4:1-10

Today’s sermon recorded like normal.  You can listen to it at the bottom of this post or on iTunes, click here. Today’s sermon was about forgiveness. Click the picture to read my sermon notes.

Dear Jesus, I know we can’t go back to the way things were before, but I would really like to try. I would gladly give back all that I have for just five more minutes. I know we can never go back but will I ever be able to watch a police show on [...]

Over the weekend my family went to a birthday party for the son of a family friend.  We had a great time and when we left my son got to take a balloon home.  This was great until about five minutes down the road when he decided to pop the balloon in the back seat [...]

It appears that God finds humor in my mornings.  Today’s sermon is essentially half online.  The recorder I use for my sermons decided to not work, so there is no podcast this week but my notes are just below this.  Unfortunately you will miss my amazing illustrations and my wonderful jokes, that everyone laughed at. [...]

September 2001, I had only just begun my freshman year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  On September 11, I had just woken up and turned on the news in time to see, live, the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.  The news reporter, Robin Meade of CNN, had just started her new job [...]

As a pastor I get to pray a lot, it is part of my job.   People always come up to me with prayer requests, they even get posted on my Facebook account.  Now I really enjoy praying, I do it a lot.  However, because people ask me to pray I always hear prayer requests [...]