Barry York

The Lord turns even our little sorrows into joy... Last weekend I had to spend yet another beautiful, sunny Saturday going to various open houses for graduation. Now don't get me

More people commented on my last blog entitled "A Grieving Heart [http://sycamorerpc.blogspot.com/2007/05/grieving-heart.html]" than I have ever had before. I want to follow it up

To the youth of the Sycamore Reformed Presbyterian Church and their Christian friends: My pastoral heart is grieving over you. Why? Every so often I survey your blogs and scan your Facebook pages.

One church in Kokomo experienced barking, meowing, and chirping in its service yesterday, and it was not because the Toronto Blessing finally hit our town. No, this was a "blessing" of

It's been one of those days where friends and my brother have sent me amusing video clips to watch. Dozens of fish just jumping out of the water at night toward

[http://bp1.blogger.com/_vAzOWT9yZyI/Rha0eS-04VI/AAAAAAAAAAw/Im3YFXgGEt0/s1600-h/physical-map-of-northern-ireland.gif] Or at least my eyes are smiling upon Ireland. Following our arrival on Wednesday, Miriam and I spent a day with the

[http://bp0.blogger.com/_vAzOWT9yZyI/RgKxGMHMbLI/AAAAAAAAAAk/srAtEU40wPU/s1600-h/n1163401334_794.jpg] On Tuesday night of this week, I was privileged to attend the Indiana Family Institute [http://www.hoosierfamily.org/]'s

While enjoying a two-day get-away with my wife last week, I was fascinated to read this article [http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070222/LOCAL/702220439/1196] about Elliot Huck.

Perhaps a blog with this name should not have a post with this title, but nevertheless... Several weeks ago, when the temperatures were more like those of springtime than the ones we are

During the Covenanter Young Adult Winter Conference, each year on Sabbath afternoons we have traditionally had a time called "Stump the Pastors" (affectionately dubbed "Stump the Chumps" by some)

[http://bp0.blogger.com/_vAzOWT9yZyI/Ra-LCfmGncI/AAAAAAAAAAY/DdCCGOC9rNI/s1600-h/squirrel.jpg] After a battle with them in our church building a while back, squirrels became a source of humor around Sycamore. In my

Many blogging thoughts, but little blogging time these past few weeks. Our congregation had the privilege of hosting over 100 college students and young working adults for worship and lunch this past weekend

Preached on Genesis 21:1-7 yesterday regarding the birth of Isaac. The joyous arrival of Isaac, whose very name means "laughter," to Abraham and Sarah after all those years of waiting

As I wrote last week [http://sycamorerpc.blogspot.com/2006/12/here-we-go-again.html], a proposal involving a huge downtown development project ($110 dollars, seven-towers, eleven city blocks) was published in a local paper.

I'm getting old. No surprise to you, I know, but it reads like the daily news to me. Reflect with me on these little reminders from recent comments: * "Your hair

Faithful readers of this blog will remember the struggle our congregation had with the local library board a while ago (If interested, you can read about this here [http://sycamorerpc.blogspot.com/2005/

Know one story worse than what happened in Sodom before its destruction? You know the one in Genesis 19, where the angels visited Lot, his house was surrounded by a homosexual throng, and

Whoa! Being a mere babe in an internet savvy world, I had no idea when I wrote my previous post "Evil in the Pulpit [http://sycamorerpc.blogspot.com/2006/11/evil-in-pulpit.html]

Often bloggers can do no better service than to point their readers to someone who has written an important article better than they can do. With that in mind, please go to Kevin

If the title led you to believe you would read a juicy bit worthy of the _National Enquirer, _sorry to disappoint. Thankfully, that is not the case. The confessions I am about to

As our nation grieves over the outbreak of violence in the recent school shootings in the Denver, Colorado and Lancaster, Pennsylvania areas, we may want to take this opportunity to teach our sons

Joseph McDougall was a physician in Nova Scotia who in the middle of the last century had a twenty-three year-old woman patient dying from tuberculosis. She was the mother of a one-year old

I know it is rare that I blog twice in one day. However, knowing how trends always begin in California and sweep east, after reading this article [http://www.nbc11.com/news/9946298/

A city councilman in Kokomo wrote an editorial this week (which you can read here [http://www.kokomotribune.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_268195455.html] ) calling his readers to have compromising views with

The fifth year of Sycamore Covenant Academy has begun with a bang. Though still relatively small in size, this ministry of our church that provides academic and discipleship training for home educated youth